Bug#885432: bugs-field-does-not-refer-to-debian-infrastructure for non-Debian packages
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> We have the lintian profile system that enables you to process packages
> in a different context than "debian" (e.g. "ubuntu" or your own personal
> context). The profiles can enable / disable tags (or even change
> severity of the tags).
> However, we cannot guess which profile you want based on the package.
> Partly, because we select the profile first and then process the
> package. Partly, because (as I recall) we do not have a reliable
> indicator of which "derivative" the package is targeting. In the best
> case, we only have the "distribution", but e.g. "jessie" is used both by
> Debian but also third-parties (a notably Devuan, but ISVs may also have
> their own repositories that mirror the Debian release that they match).
Yeah, profiles would definitely work. I wonder if it would make sense to
have a file in debian/source that indicates the profile in some way?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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