❦ 11 août 2015 00:20 +0200, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> : > Well, half of the time I spend on packaging of python-netaddr is on > those IEEE files. They change their locations, they get new lintian > _errors_, they are tiresome. Why is it an error and not just an > information? > > If I start generating those files at install time, I am pretty sure that > I will get bug because I am generating files outside of /var, because I > don't purge them appropriately, because they are not regenerated when > ieee-data is updated or stuff like that. Building them at compile time > is a fine alternative. The package gets updated about one time per year > and the data is refreshed at this moment. This last paragraph may sound a bit harsh. I am sorry for that. I just consider that this shouldn't be a Lintian error. Not even a warning. -- There's small choice in rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
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