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Bug#454723: false positive: perl-package-should-be-section-perl dh-make-perl



Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> writes:
> Damyan Ivanov dijo [Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:31:34PM +0200]:
>> Lintian reports the following on dh-make-perl:
>> 
>>  W: dh-make-perl: perl-package-should-be-section-perl dh-make-perl
>> (...)
>> I am unsure if
>>  a) an override is in order; or
>>  b) lintian should "whitelist" dh-make-perl for this check; or
>>  c) lintian should check only for packages named lib*-perl
>
> I'd go for c) - The fact that a package uses a specific language for
> its implementation (and its developer often states so in the package
> name itself) does not mean the package in any way enhances the
> language or provides resources for it or its programmers.

Yeah, c) will be implemented in the next upload.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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