Re: Proposal: Reject packages that violate policy
Hi,
>>"Darren" == Darren Benham <gecko@benham.net> writes:
Darren> On 13-Oct-98 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I am inclined to trust the current method of having a human
>> actually do rejects. The afore mentioned human may, of course, use
>> the services of lintian in deciding whether or not to reject the
>> package; I would be inclined to support a policy violation being
>> sufficient cause for rejection.
>>
Darren> I was talking with one such human in IRC today and he basicly
Darren> said he'd get chewed out since there is no policy to reject
Darren> packages because they break policy...
By all means, then, we should create at least a convention
that lintian errors are grounds for rejection. I would put it at
least in the developers-reference, and into policy as well if that is
deemed necessary.
manoj
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