Bug#795070: Lintian complains about oui.idx and iab.idx
Hi Vincent,
Vincent Bernat wrote:
> >> They change their locations,
> >
> > Now no more. For you, they're only inside ieee-data from now on. No
> > need to track upstream locations anymore.
>
> Except that since the introduction of ieee-data, the location in the
> package has at least changed twice.
Oops. Didn't know that.
> That's fine, we can't get everything right on the first time. But
> this is what I meaned when I said they change their locations.
I see.
> > All things which can be fixed. And once they are fixed, they're fixed
> > once and forever and will bother you less often than they do now.
>
> I have a pretty simple package and half of debian/rules is handling this
> ieee-data thing and you propose to add a lot more.
No, I propose to move that part into a maintainer script.
> All additional code will come with additional bugs that I will have
> to handle. I just don't have the bandwidth for that.
Not sure how similar this is, but I plan to do that for arpwatch
(which is currently orphaned). Maybe that implementation can work as
pattern for you once it's there.
Regards, Axel
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