Bug#350114: Please add ubuntu upload targets to frontend/lintian
Thijs Kinkhorst <kink@squirrelmail.org> writes:
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> wrote:
>> in order to get rid of this patch in ubuntu, please include it in the
>> next lintian upload. Attached the patch we have in ubuntus lintian.
> That doesn't seem right. We can assume that someone packaging on a
> Debian system (i.e. running lintian from Debian) is preparing a Debian
> package, and someone on Ubuntu, running Ubuntu's lintian, is targetting
> Ubuntu.
> Therefore, the check as-is is valid, and quite useful: if someone is
> confused and puts an Ubuntu target in a Debian package, this will be
> detected by lintian.
Yeah, that was my reaction too -- I think this is one of those places
where Debian and Ubuntu really want to be (slightly) distinct.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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