Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> 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

I think this is *exactly* what we need. ie, "me too".

I'm not sure this has to be in the control file though. It could be in the
override file for lintian; instead of simply indicating that an error exists
and is normal you could indicate that the error exists but is a bug that's
already reported.

But putting it in the control file isn't necessarily too bad an idea either,
if there are advantages to that instead.

-- 
greg