Re: Some suggestions
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 05:47:58PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Some suggestions about handling certain bugs and a few other changes.
> If there are no objections I will proceed with the mentioned actions:
>
> #279754: lintian: missing-depends-line test appears too general
> -> Close, should be handled by overrides
yup
> #317277: copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate is
> overly nitpicky - please remove
> -> Close or tag wontfix
close
> #253621: [ef]grep check
> -> Close or tag wontfix
close
> #289723: lintian: ChangeLog compression is a 'should' not a 'must'
> -> not sure, we have several places where we treat policy 'should's as
> errors, not warnings... Fix these or continue like before?
should be fixed, actually... maybe postpone till the more fine-grained
stuff gets implemented.
> #191253: [checks/changelog-file] wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog is
> too strict
> -> Close, is a real error, override acceptable?
indeed, override would the right solution here.
> debhelper versions:
> I would suggest dropping the versioned build depends requirement for
> all compat levels < 5. We should issue a warning though in case the
> compat level < 3 like debhelper does, too.
yeah, makes sense. Even oldstable has debhelper 4...
--Jeroen
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