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Re: About lintian



On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:20:06 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote:
> > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority
> > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by
> > third parties asking that we make tag names more consistent (bug
> > numbers are available, if needed).
> I can add support to lintian-overrides in cme. I can also add a more or less 
> automatic update of renamed tags.
> Is this something Debian people would like to see ?

I think it's a good idea.

Another idea might be to let lintian-brush (and the nice Janitor) do
this; it would (at least for git repos where the Janitor has commit
access) save people some work.

(Cc'ing Jelmer)
 

Cheers,
gregor

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