Bug#922531: lintian: Please make package-uses-vendor-specific-patch-series Debian-archive specific

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 922531 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Guillem,

> As the maintainer of dpkg, I [..]

I note your dislike of the decision that was reached by the CTTE in
#904302. I will pass no comment on it either way.
 
> So, I'd appreciate very much to see this tag emitted exclusively when
> running lintian on lintian.d.o and Debian's ftp-master […] but not when
> running locally

Whilst I have not seen Ubuntu folks complain about this tag being
emitted by Lintian I can understand the request to not run it on
Ubuntu (etc.).

However, I do not follow why a Debian maintainer maintaining Debian
packages should not see this when running Lintian locally, both in
principle and in practice; it would be confusing for it to only
appear on lintian.d.o and, for example, *I* would want to be
alerted of this prior to an upload.

Lintian supports dpkg-vendor - can we not just add an exception to
the Ubuntu vendor-specific profile?


Best wishes,

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