Re: two more tags
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 05:47:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> > Why false positives? I mean, I see no reason to ship files that only
> > make sense when developing under a Windows system even under
> > usr/share/doc; some files are even generated by Visual Studio which have
> > a big fat "DO NOT EDIT" warning which I'm not even sure if they can even
> > be distributed.
>
> In the abstract, I agree with you. (I'm fairly sure those files are fine
> to distribute, though; they're marked that way because they're
> automatically generated, but lots of free software projects that support
> Windows builds distribute them.) In the concrete, I'm concerned that it's
> too much of a nitpick. I know I bang this drum a lot, but Lintian becomes
> useless if people won't run it and pay attention to what it says, so I
> don't want to issue tags that people feel are just meaningless noise.
And judging the feedback I got during Debconf it's not like we are far
away from that, disasters like the copyright-line-too-long tag can
quickly damage our reputation (not that I think that this is justified,
and it might be only a vocal minority as often, but we should be careful
anyway).
> I'm not sure where this one falls. If you want to support Windows builds,
> those files *could* be useful as part of an example of how to do that.
> It's a bit of a stretch, but I can see it.
Hmm, I don't actually think that this is a stretch. Crippling examples
just for the sake of not including some files not needed on Debian
sounds just wrong to me. If they are non-free, that's of course another
matter, but then the check should be against the source package.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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