Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy
Seconded.
--
Raul
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:30:45AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> You'll notice that the common thread running through these cases is
> that it's usually OK to include the package if the maintainer knew
> about the problem and a bug is open. So, I propose that we give the
> maintainer a way of saying `I know about this and it's a filed as a
> bug'.
>
> This would take the form of a `Known-Problems' field in the .changes
> file. Initially this would be an X-C-Known-Problems so that old
> versions of dpkg-dev can build packages; the archive script would
> understand both. The syntax would be something like
>
> X-C-Known-Problems:
> #3923 lintian E: binary-without-manpage ls
> #4000 lintian E: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link
Reply to: