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



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)

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/ampache-themes/ampache-themes_3.4.4-1.dsc 

Thank you 
Charlie Smotherman

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