On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:29:20AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:01:22PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> (28/04/2010): > > > I'm orphaning the package. What part of that makes you think I'm > > > going to be interested in fixing random lintian warnings? > > > Random lintian warnings (and errors) like the ones you're generating > > by orphaning the package in an improper manner? If you're not used to > > that process, you probably should have even more reasons to use that > > tool and fix those things. > > *sigh* Lintian just isn't the right tool for this job, the sort of > random things that lintian identifies just aren't interesting for an > upload like this. An upload like this isn't the right thing to do to orphan a package. Filing an O bug is enough. If you upload a package, it has to be technically sane -- independent of your particular interest in that package. And for that lintian tests are very well interesting. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <jhr@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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