Re: Proposed mass bug filing: packages without support for build-arch and build-indep
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 1:23 PM Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately this is only a warning in lintian, which might explain
> why so many packages are still affected.
After a reasonably broad and balanced discussion on
Libera#debian-devel, those targets are now required. [1]
The Archive team still runs an older Lintian version (and may for a
while) so there should be plenty of time for uploads without
auto-rejection.
> in that case let's wait
At the time of writing, 264 sources were still affected [2] which was
down from 421 in November. It worked out more or less to the monthly
decline of 85 sources originally predicted by N. Thykier in 2013. [3]
Lintian's tag description was amended with the simplest possible fix,
which has two-lines. [4] They are reasonable addition to sources that
do not receive a lot of attention.
> file these bugs with severity "important" and then raise the severity a
> month later
The bugs were already serious, and therefore release-critical, when I
found them.
Thank you, everyone, for making the best operating system the world
has ever seen. Let's keep it together!
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/23f836f91c03b78df76743fc002a105403a5bc14
[2] Scroll down,
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-missing-recommended-target
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657390#45
[4] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-missing-required-target
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