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Bug#466425: lintian: Please warn about debhelper compat level



On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:53:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> For the compatibility level 6 part, I personally agree (and it certainly
> makes backporting easier), but I know some other maintainers don't and use
> V6 as a matter of course, particularly for new packages.  I'm not sure
> that it's appropriate in this case for lintian to be used as a way of
> trying to force consensus.  Basically, I don't want to irritate people
> with tags that they don't agree with and aren't ever going to follow,
> since it makes fewer people use lintian at all.
> 

OK.  That seems fair.  Please feel free to close the report.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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