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



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:08:43PM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:27 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> > 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...
> > 
> No sarcasm or disrespect intended, I actually thought I was being
> respectful, and polite waiting for the discussion of lintian (which I
> found very helpful) to be over before I requested sponsoring of
> ampache-themes.  My apologies if you were offended.   

Blame my not being an english native speaker. :)

Hauke

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