Re: Bug#930679: Please add overridable tag for not using dh sequencer

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Sam,

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:27 AM Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Based on that I think we'd like lintian to detect when dh is not used
> and allow maintainers to override the tag if they have an adequate
> justification for not using dh.

I tentatively added a new tag called 'no-dh-sequencer' to Lintian.
More details are available here:

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/d0b5b337a61e3ae17e2c7b22621fdd53a9932fad

> It would be even better to detect some of the adequate justifications
> automatically like Haskell packages.

I tried to exclude Haskell packages. The mechanism can probably be improved.

> I'm opening this bug to track the issue.

I kept the bug open to invite further discussion.

As a side note, it was pretty hard to construct a test case. I hadn't
used anything other than dh since Joey wrote his blog post about
everyone's grandpa.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner