Bug#483845: lintian: could warn about uploads to wrong targets
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Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> la, 2008-05-31 kello 16:47 -0500, Raphael Geissert kirjoitti:
>> Wouldn't this be more suitable in dput/dupload?
>> Those already have similar options, some of which are disabled by
>> default, but available anyway.
>
> It seems to me that it's the kind of static checking that belongs to
> lintian, so I'd like to see it in lintian, rather than every upload tool
> separately. If nothing else, it would help find problems even when
> things are not uploaded, just (re)built.
The thing is that just like Russ said, almost no one uploads new versions to
experimental first just for the sake of it being a new version. There are
of course some cases that's desired (e.g. major changes), but that's not
the common rule.
And adding extra enable-on-demand checks IMHO is not something that belongs
to lintian. But I'll better let the lintian maintainers speak for
themselves.
I just wanted to suggest another possible way to achieve the same goal, with
higher (IMHO) chances to get added.
Cheers,
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