Bug#322244: Should warn about missing source section?
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:25:22AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>> I just tested building jts, and by coincident saw this warning from
>> dpkg-genchanges:
>>
>> dpkg-genchanges: warning: missing Section for source files
>>
>> Neither lintian nor linda warned about the missing section when I used
>> them to check the package. Perhaps lintian should?
> I'm not really sure we should this. After all, is there anything out
> there that actually _uses_ that information if it is available?
Well, Policy says that it's recommended and dpkg-genchanges puts it into
the *.changes file. It is used by archive software that doesn't use pools
to figure out what section to put the source package in, and while Debian
proper doesn't care about pre-pool archiving any more, it is still useful
for small archives.
If it *isn't* important enough for lintian to check for, Policy should
probably be modified to make it optional instead of recommended.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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