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Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog
> > > entries saying “make Lintian happy”, etc.
> > >
> > > Lintian is not a deity to be appeased; it's a tool reporting that the
> > > package might need fixing for explicit *reasons*, formulated by fellow
> > > developers. The changelog entry for the fix should not even mention
> > > Lintian and should speak only to the reason given for the check.
> > 
> > Sounds like a target for a new lintian check ;)
> > 
> > We are getting off-topic now, my apologies for starting that with my
> > initial mail.
> > 
> 
> If the discussion of lintian is finished would someone please sponsor
> ampache-themes (Hauke)

I hope you meant that *way* less sarcastic then it sounded to me...

> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/ampache-themes/ampache-themes_3.4.4-1.dsc 
> 
> Thank you 
> Charlie Smotherman

Done. You're welcome.
Hauke

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