Re: Uploads
- To: lintian-maint@debian.org
- Subject: Re: Uploads
- From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:59:30 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20060623155930.GA23742@ouaza.com>
- In-reply-to: <87sllv3n16.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
>
> > FWIW, packages using CDBS and the python-distutils class and
> > Build-Depending on "python-dev" have a similar warning... and yet they
> > need python-dev for the clean target.
>
> Yeah, fixed that already.
Good!
> > I tend to think that you're doing too much checks here. Having too much
> > in Build-Depends is not *that* bad. You'd better check only for the
> > contrary ie missing Build-Depends because they are used in the clean
> > rule... well IMO of course.
>
> This would be a good thing to send to lintian-maint rather than just to
> me. I didn't add the check in the first place; I just tried to fix all of
> the false positives in a check that was already in lintian before I
> started working on it. I agree with you that it's not completely clear
> it's worth it, although at this point there aren't many false positives
> left.
I have nothing to add, just wanted to share my initial comment with the
other maintainers as suggested by Russ.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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