Re: Proposal: Reject packages that violate policy

To: Debian Policy <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Reject packages that violate policy
From: john@dhh.gt.org
Date: 12 Oct 1998 21:01:37 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87lnmlp6da.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: Darren Benham's message of Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:22:23 -0700 (PDT)
References: <[🔎] XFMail.981012182223.gecko@benham.net>

Darren Benham writes:
> I have just heard that, as strange as it sounds, it's not part of policy
> to reject a package from incoming that violates policy.  THEREFORE, I
> propose that it be made part of policy to reject from incoming packages
> that contain policy errors and that the standard of measure be the
> program lintian.  Any package with lintian *errors* be rejected.

Didn't we hash this out a long time ago and conclude that lintian should
not attempt to enforce policy?
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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