On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 12:49:29PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > It also fails as an archive QA tool in my view since the FTP masters have > > been unwilling to upgrade to any recent version of lintian. > > Perhaps a ftpmaster could explain this in detail. As far as I understand, > it's also a DSA issue. All packages are obtained from stable. Per e.g. the discussion on #debian-devel on 2024-04-01, this specific package is older than even that. Per the same discussion, we don't have (or at least couldn't find) an *official* reason for that, only speculation. But, sure, running lintian from stable on packages for unstable can also cause problems up to autorejects. > > As a consequence, > > people now get auto-rejects when uploading because lintian on the FTP master > > server does not produce the same output as current lintian in stable or > > newer. > > I think its a bit unfair to blame lintian about the fact that its old > versions do not do a proper job when it comes to checking newer packages. Yes. -- WBR, wRAR
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