Bug#452215: lintian: r1238 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/diffs/debian testset/diffs/debian/patches
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>> I don't know if we want to allow for that or not. I find the logic
>> dubious, but dpatch supports that mode of operation.
> I have to admit that I consider using a patch system in this way to be a
> bug. I think we might want to upload with this check and see if there
> are too many "false" positives.
I'm okay with that. I just wanted to warn in advance, since I expect
there will be at least some controversy over it (even though the check has
also been requested by others).
> OTOH, what might be more important would be to introduce checks for
> other patch systems, but I fear I don't know enough about them to add
> some checks (especially after seeing how much I didn't know about
> dpatch...)
Adding more tests for quilt is on my list, but behind various other things
(such as Policy work).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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