Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?
On Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:52:59 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote:
> Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes:
> > Thanks to this new Lintian tag, the current situation is that packages
> > won't pass NEW without a SysV init script (unless a FTP-masters ignore
> > this specific tag despite its severity).
>
> I haven't worked on Lintian in several years, so perhaps my information is
> stale, but at least previously ftp-master rejects were not based on
> severity, but rather on a hard-coded list of tags maintained by
> ftp-master.
That's correct. We do also do a general review of the package and lintian
feedback is one thing we do consider. Personally, I don't recall having
rejected a package for this. I believe I have accepted a few and then filed a
bug (even prior to the lintian check).
Scott K
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