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Re: gob2_2.0.16-3_amd64.changes ACCEPTED



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

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