Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy
Raul Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:42:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Raul, I hope you're aware that
> >
> > a) Ian's assumption that dinstall rejects packages with lintian errors is
> > false.
>
> I was not aware of that.
Beleive me, lintian is so out of date on some perl issues that 2 of my
packages would not get it if this were the case. (Though they are
technically correct.) And they made it through incoming recently.
> > b) Lintian already has a local exception mechanism, which was announced to
> > debian-devel-announce recently.
>
> I've not seen that announcement, and I've been looking for such announcements.
>
> What was the subject line?
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9912/msg00971.html
DWN also mentioned it, FWIW.
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