Re: lintian: error package list
Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> writes:
> Then, next question is, Is there any historical data about this?
> I think it's very important measure to check packages' quality.
> In my opinion, Quarity in Debian means three aspects.
> 1. of package
> 2. of upstream software
> 3. of whole distribution
> lintian and piuparts can check "1" and measure it is important role
> to know we are going to be better or not.
I'm not sure if this is as helpful as one might hope, since Lintian keeps
adding new tags and catching problems that we previously didn't. So while
package quality may improve over time, updates to Lintian will also keep
driving the number up.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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