Bug#1100664: lintian: Please adjust architecture detection for changes in the file package (causing false "binary-from-other-architecture")
to 20.3.2025 klo 7.33 Maytham Alsudany (maytham@debian.org) kirjoitti:
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> On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 07:04 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > It's not just that it's a false positive. It's also marked at priority Error
> > without pointing to a specific MUST or MUST NOT item in Debian Policy.
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> #796660.
Which is merely a proposal at this point. That doesn't justify the
check already having Error priority.
> > Sorry, but a check that doesn't point to a specific policy item is just
> > someone's pet peve. That qualifies as Pedantic or Experimental at best.
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> Most packages shouldn't be shipping binaries from other architectures,
> and Lintian is designed to check for common mistakes as well, not *just*
> policy items.
Oh totally, I agree, but until it has become a policy item AND the
corresponding Lintian check has been thoroughly debugged, it has no
place as an Error.
Martin-Éric
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