On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 23:02 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yeah, but that's in the middle of a rather long document. Given how > integral Lintian is to the mentoring process, I wonder if it would be good > to push it at people more directly on the pages they have to read to learn > how to upload. For example, put it directly on: > > http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > > like the dput instructions. I think it's warranted since it seems to be > the first thing that just about everyone doing regular mentoring checks. That seems like a good idea. The live site is lagging behind git master, once we've deployed the latest code I will look at that and also maybe some automated ways to use non-lintian tools to check for issues, for example the ones that I use are here: http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian#Check_points_for_any_package > I'm not saying that you're wrong to use pedantic tags when mentoring, only > that it feels like a sharpish stick, and I'm not entirely sure the benefit > would be greater than the cost of encouraging all package maintainers who > want to be mentored to use them blindly. (Using them in conjunction with > a mentor who is explaining them and can help with drafting upstream > communication is another matter, of course.) Makes sense I guess. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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