Bug#832099: lintian: please check for unnecessary SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH assignments

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Mattia,

> So, is this commit challenging the idea of dpkg-buildpackage being
> optional

No. This change attempts to make no comment on whether dpkg-buildpackage
should be mandatory or optional. As you imply from the question, Lintian
would not be the place to push that. :)

It intends that developers use the cleaner and more-standard:

>    include /u/s/d/pkg-info.mk

.. instead of some self-rolled parsing of dpkg-parsechangelog or
similar.


Regards,

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