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Re: Advice regarding lintian information message: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign



On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:43:14AM -0000, Paul Cager wrote:
> What is the recommended approach here?
> 
> (1)  Ignore the problem - it is only an *informational* message,
>      and previous releases have ignored it.
> (2)  Patch as recommended in msg01481.html; send patch to upstream author.
> (3)  Send a bug report upstream.
> 
> I would favour option (2), but what's the consensus?

I agree that Debian maintainers should not wait for upstream to fix things
they can do themselves, that they should indeed fix things they can, and that
they should send patches upstream.  In other words, I fully agree with option
(2). :-)

Thanks,
Bas

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