Re: Uploads
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:28:45PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
>
> > (moving to lintian-maint)
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
>
> >>> 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.
>
> What would the other lintian maintainers think about downgrading the
> build-depends-without-arch-dep tag to info from warning? We are getting a
> *lot* of false positives with it, and while I'm quashing them as I see
> them, this is a style thing more than it's really a policy requirement.
Yeah, makes sense to me.
--Jeroen
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