Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy
Joey Hess writes:
> 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 Beleive me, lintian is so out of date on some perl issues that 2 of my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.
FWIW, a package that I uploaded was rejected, with a comment "using
lintian would have pointed this out"; when I replied that in fact the
"error" that was being objected to was in fact an intentional
decision, I didn't even get a reply, and the package languishes
still in /REJECTED
Matthew
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