Re: Lintian based autorejects
(On vacation with intermittant access, so it may be a while before I see
responses.)
Ryan Niebur <ryan@debian.org> writes:
> this is probably a question more for lintian maintainers, but... what
> should we do if lintian is buggy and falsely claims our package has
> one of these tags?
The same as what you would do with any other buggy package in Debian: file
a bug. I don't know how ftpmaster wants to handle that case, but I
suspect replying to the REJECT message to also let them know about the
problem would be reasonable.
> also, it would be nice to have a way to run lintian so that
> it will only list problems that will cause a REJECT, and have it exit
> with non-zero if any of those are not overriden (or are overriden but
> not allowed to be overriden).
This is definitely something I want to do in the near future in Lintian,
but if you could file a wishlist bug against Lintian, that would ensure
that we don't forget.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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