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Bug#999768: lintian: false report: adopted-extended-field



On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:28:15 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote:

> Hi Francesco,

Hello Axel, nice to read you!   :-)

> 
> Francesco Poli wrote:
> > More than 6 months later, it seems that this bug is still unfixed in
> > lintian: running lintian/2.114.0 produces the same complaints.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> See https://bugs.debian.org/1012289 formerly known as "O: lintian".

Ouch! I had noticed that lintian was not getting new uploads, but I
wasn't aware of its state of being basically orphan!!!

> 
> > Is there any hope this bug can get fixed soon, along with the other RC
> > bugs currently open against lintian, so that lintian can work better in
> > sid (and also migrate to testing, see bug [#1003643] ...)?
> 
> I'm now working on a new lintian release and I will work on the
> currently open RC bugs.

This is great news, I am very relieved to know that you are taking
matters in your own hands.

> 
> 
> > By the way: a new version (4.6.1) of Debian Policy has been released
> 
> No wonder if noone was working on Lintian proper. There's a pull
> request for this
> (https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/393),
> though and I'll likely merge it once I fixed the more severe and more
> pressing issues, namely failing the failing autopkgtests in current
> git HEAD (first) and the RC bug reports (second).

Sounds like a very reasonable plan.
Thank you so much for taking care of this!

Bye.


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