Bug#512119: False positives for update menus and bashism checks
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell writes:
[...]
> Because of the second issue below, Lintian doesn't recognize type as a way
> of checking for the existence of a command. It might be worth adding it
> so that we don't warn twice of the same basic thing, once confusingly.
It probably should, yes.
[...]
>
> Given that dash implements type, an argument could be made that Policy
> should permit it. On the other hand, given that equivalent functionality
> is provided several other ways in Debian, I'm not sure there's any point
> in adding it rather than having people just switch to which or command -v.
Even command is implemented in different ways so I would suggest not to rely on
it either.
>
>> Also a wishlist item:
>>
>> W: disorder source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2.2 (current is 3.8.0)
>
>> What would be really handy here is a pointer to policy change history.
>
> Like a mention of /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz?
>
Or probably to the online version, as I'm sure not everyone has debian-policy
installed (or not on every machine).
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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