Bug#483845: lintian: could warn about uploads to wrong targets
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> <liw> I guess one could have a heuristic like this: if changelog
> indicates a new upstream version, warn if the upload target is not
> experimental, but don't warn, if the changelog entry says "new upstream
> version uploaded to unstable"
I might be missing something here, but wouldn't this essentially always be
wrong when looking at the whole archive? Almost no one uploads new
upstream versions to experimental first.
> <liw> although I guess that would be best done by a lintian check
> <liw> possibly even enabled only if there is a debian/lintian-me-harder
> file in the source tree? :)
You'd need some way to request only that specific check, I think, since
even people who normally want lintian to be as verbose as possible aren't
going to want that.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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