Bug#637540: lintian: bad-distribution-in-changes-file wheezy
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:54:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
>
> > lintian complains about a bad distribution when a codename (like, say,
> > wheezy or squeeze) is used in changes files as Distribution.
>
> This was intentional, since my understanding was that stable,
> stable-security, or stable-proposed-updates was supposed to be used
> instead and such distributions won't work properly. If they will, we can
> certainly change that.
>
I prefer to use the codenames since they don't suddenly change meanings
around release time. And they get mapped to the right thing by dak in
the end, anyway.
Cheers,
Julien
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