On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:06:48 +0000 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > lintian is not a joke and -mentors is not here to be fobbed off when > the real problem would appear to be a lazy maintainer. > Unacceptable. Write the manpages - no excuses. Write all the missing > manpages and make sure each one covers all the commands and options > that are available for the binaries concerned. Then submit the manpages > upstream and work with upstream to implement a method of keeping the > manpages updated (e.g. docbook-xsl etc.) > > The other warnings are so minor that I will rather keep them as a reminder > > until later than making a bad quickfix. > > No, you need to fix them. This isn't optional. If there are bugs in > lintian then *file bugs against lintian* and reference them in the > override files *and* include or attach the override files to your RFS. I've updated my sponsoring requirements page to make things easier to read and also to make it explicit that lintian and manpages are a requirement, not an option. http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#lintian -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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