Re: debtags facet for sections (Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> now that the "base" section has been removed (Policy 3.8.0.0), is it
> still necessary to override the management of the Section field instead
> of simply trusting the maintainers?

The maintainers are really bad at it?  lintian.d.o alas has a ton of
evidence of this, even for the very easy cases.  Consider:

http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dev-package-should-be-section-libdevel.html
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/doc-package-should-be-section-doc.html
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/perl-package-should-be-section-perl.html
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/python-package-should-be-section-python.html

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>