Re: "don't bug people uploading from @work" etc.
Re: Chris Lamb 2018-10-12 <[🔎] 1539363568.280182.1540045272.7BB76AE7@webmail.messagingengine.com>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> A lot of the PostgreSQL packages have:
>
> 1 # don't bug people uploading from @work
> 2 source: changelog-should-mention-nmu
> 3 source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number
>
> .. in their Lintian overrides. I understand the motivation and don't
> wish to open the debate yet again (!), but have you considered just
> ignoring these locally in your lintianrc?
That would still make them appear on lintian.debian.org and hence on
DDPO.
> That would mean that nobody else would accidentally not see these tags
> and, of course, would reduce the number of overrides.
The number of wrongly labeled NMUs should be next to zero anyway, so
the usefulness of these tags is limited, I'd think.
Christoph
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