Re: Bug#607293: 75 unreported RC bugs, (mostly?) fixable by rebuilding / could lintian please prevent such packages from being uploaded in future?

[Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>]

On 12331 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

>> Package: lintian
>> Severity: wishlist
> [...]
>> To get a list of affected binary packages:
>> 
>>   w3m http://lintian.debian.org/tags/install-info-used-in-maintainer-script.html | awk '/[(]binary[)]$/ {print $1}'
> [...]
>> Could lintian maintainers please add this lintian tag to
>> data/output/ftp-master-nonfatal, although this shouldn't occur much in
>> future since debconf doesn't create this snippet anymore?
> Well, we could, but it would be somewhat redundant.  The list of reject
> tags in lintian is generated from the list on ftp-master, not
> vice-versa; if you want the list of tags used by ftp-master to
> auto-reject packages, you need to convince them, not us.

Im not against adding more tags.
Im against doing it right now, right after squeeze is a better time. We
dont want to break any possibly needed upload by those packages here.

But lintian could sure go already and make this E, its "Severity:
normal, Certainty: possible" a Warning now.And Certainty only possible,
does that mean we get false-positives?

-- 
bye, Joerg
It seems to me that the account creation step could be fully automated:
checking the box "approved by DAM" could trigger an insert into the LDAP
database thereby creating the account.
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