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Re: Conflicts in Debian : a bit of data



Regis Boudin <regis@boudin.name> writes:

> Some notes : a lintian test can hardly be done, as it would require
> checking Packages files from old distributions. The
> package-doesn't-exists cases would need more different cross-checks to
> know when the package was in, and what sort of delay is reasonable to
> consider cleanups for transitions like the python one.

Yeah, agreed.  Having seen further the sort of checking that you're
talking about, this really isn't a lintian thing.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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