Thijs wrote: >On Saturday 5 January 2008 14:43, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> As you might expect (as I was the requester for this feature) I'd >> *really* prefer the former option. My initial reasoning for it is that >> I want to make it immediately visible to sponsors if a package has >> suppressed lintian warnings. If it's not the default behaviour to list >> them, then I'd be worried that some people just won't notice. > >I think that a sponsor should review candidate packages more than just running >lintian over them. If I get a completely new package to review I examine at >least all files in the debian/ dir closely. If it's an update to a package I >sponsored before, I at least debdiff it with the archive version, then added >overrides would come up aswell.
You do that; I do that; it seems not all sponsors are quite so diligent. :-( If we can make it easier for people to pick up on errors, I think this is a good idea. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
