Bug#629453: lintian: --checksums does not do anything
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> ... and by the looks of it; it did not do anything in the 2.4.3
> release either. I checked the $check_checksums variable in frontend/lintian
> in 2.4.3 and a modified local branch based on 2.5.0; none of them ever
> reads the variable (although they both pass it to GetOptions).
> Question is; should we re-instate it or deprecate it? A little manual test
> suggests that currently is "on by default" making the option redundant.
I'd deprecate it. I don't see any point in making this an option.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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