Bug#883772: lintian: please don't map implimentation language to sections
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.59
Severity: normal
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As summarized in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802488
the programming-language sections are a mess. It's not clear why the
user cares about the implimentation language when looking for a
package, so encouraging maintainers to move packages from sections
that relate to the use of a package (e.g. mail) to one based on the
implimentation language (e.g. lisp), is actively destructive (albeit
in a minor way).
The specific case that's annoying me is the 'elpa-*' -> section lisp
mapping added in c85f00e3. There's an argument that all emacs
extensions belong in section "editors" (where i believe the vim
extensions are). Or, if you think emacs as more of an application
platform, then emacs based mail-readers belong with other mail
readers, emacs based irc-clients belong with other irc clients, and so
on. Even if we care about implimentation language (or more defensibly,
grouping extensions together) forcing all elpa-* into section lisp
doesn't help anything; the package name already carries more
information than the section.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.29.1-6
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.4
ii file 1:5.32-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-7
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-3
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.72-2
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2
ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.1-3
ii t1utils 1.41-1
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.4
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1
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