Bug#795070: Lintian complains about oui.idx and iab.idx
Hi Vincent,
Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 11 août 2015 00:20 +0200, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> :
> > 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.
Not for me. :-)
> I just consider that this shouldn't be a Lintian error. Not even a
> warning.
>From my point of view it's _at least_ a warning. But I indeed consider
that data not coming from a single source being an error after having
seen multiple packages' download scripts to fail. Not as severe as
embedded code copies, but still an error that should get fixed.
Regards, Axel
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