Re: upstream field in package description
Christian Schoenebeck <schoenebeck@software-engineering.org> writes:
> Well, your suggestion sounds to me like "putting the cart before the
> horse". If "getting the packages to change" would easily realisable then
> there would be no need for a policy. How should I ever get packagers to
> accept my proposal when there's no guideline covering it?
Get a check into lintian. Some of us are obsessive about keeping packages
lintian-clean. :)
I don't know what the criteria is for lintian checks, but I would guess
that a general consensus on debian-devel would produce a strong argument
in favor of a check.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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