Bug#906281: lintian: Severity and Certainty of emacsen-common-without-dh-elpa are wrong / false positives despite "Certainty: certain"
Hi David,
David Bremner wrote:
> > Please note that I'm not 100% sure if these wildcards would match all
> > relevant packages for now. Looking into the dh_elpa source code again
> > might reveal some better metrics. Maybe also David Bremner (reincluded
> > in Cc) might have some more insight with which packages dh-elpa works
> > and with which it doesn't.
>
> dh-elpa works if you create a separate binary package and name it
> elpa-*. One could interpret the lintian message as suggesting that
> strategy.
Which would counteract FTP Masters' preference of avoiding unnecessary
tiny binary packages to avoid blowing up the package index more than
necessary.
> I'd imaging that wouldn't have a huge impact on the archive in terms
> of number of binary packages created, but I don't have numbers
> offhand.
I disagree here, not by numbers, but generally. dh-elpa having
flexibility issues should be a reason to introduce further tiny binary
packages at all. It should be a reason to fix dh-elpa (IMHO). (Hence
my original as well as this bug report.)
Regards, Axel
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