Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Seth R Arnold writes ("Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy"):
> I think I would be more welcoming if I saw an example or two of programs
> that were kept out of the archives, along with the accompaning (sp?) errors
> that did indeed look rather silly. One thought I have -- simple errors ought
> to be simple fixes. Fundamental errors require fundamental fixes -- the
> lintian exception list.

A marvellous example is the way that undocumented(7) has turned from
documentation of an outstanding bug into a way to work around the
problem with dinstall and lintian.

I agree that undocumented(7) should be abolished, but only after the
change to package acceptance which I propose.  Then we can do away
with all the nasty side-effects of undocumented(7) (manpages showing
up in locate, dpkg -L, etc. when they are not present; sometimes
dangling symlinks - who says we won't move it again; inconsistent
behaviour between various packages).

Ian.