Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:05:22PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:

> 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

This is not a direct consequence of Lintian; when I reject a package
I reject it on its own merits.

I assume you're talking about adns here.  I maintain that the rejection
was valid, because it's a shared-library package that doesn't follow
the shared-library policy at all.  (I invite anyone who would join
this discussion to inspect these packages first.  They are currently
in /debian/project/Incoming/REJECT/adns*).

I didn't reply to your mail because I thought it was mainly informative;
I don't second-guess rejections unless the maintainer moves them back
to Incoming.  (And in that case, I leave the package to a different
archive maintainer).

Richard Braakman