Re: Bug#958763: lintian: Please allow language extensions in packages for specific teams
Hi Felix,
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 02:08:05PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
>
> Lintian gained a facility recently [1] that makes granting such
> extensions a breeze. The goal is to accommodate toolchains or upstream
> package sets that are out of Debian's control, and hence hard to fix.
Nice.
> Unfortunately your desired method of selelction—by Debian team—does
> not qualify as a meaningful indicator for being outside your control.
> Do you have another way to identify the class of packages affected?
The best I can say is this kind of "summary" of our discussion about
this topic[4]. We simply do not control the scripts of scientists who
expect those names they find in publications.
So it is actually a decision that is drawn by a team not to rename
anything that will be expected in the original name by the users for
known reasons. Since it belongs to the policy of the teams it is IMHO
the most straightforward way to deal with the issue to parse the team
name.
Kind regards and thanks for working on lintian in any case
Andreas.
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/8c3d587559cfbdf5dd41e9ba1f66c9ab52de577e
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/24c509ee83ab2a1530a52ab3875c57ab99ad2085
> [3] https://lintian.debian.org/query
[4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2018/06/msg00043.html
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