Bug#516250: lintian: warn about some embedded flash applications
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 19:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> There probably isn't much that Lintian can do directly about this until
>> separate packages exist that people can use. Once that's true, we can
>> start doing the same thing we do with PHP and Javascript libraries,
>> though.
> I think lintian needs to be pro-active about these things, otherwise
> people will never have the motivation to remove them or package them
> properly.
I'm willing to have Lintian tell people to use existing packages instead
of duplicating content or restructure how their package is done, but
having Lintian tell people that they have to maintain a generic package
for a particular application when Lintian doesn't know if this package is
even a reasonable source for a generic version seems like it's going too
far to me. Lintian isn't the only QA tool; I think it needs to focus on
fixable problems with the current package and leave larger archive-wide QA
work to other tools and other approaches.
In this particular case, I think the best path forward would be to form a
Flash packaging group that takes as their mission packaging the common
code -- in other words, being proactive at developing the solution instead
of trying to push other packagers into doing the work.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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