On 02/02/16 17:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> I must say that I do not like this proposal. The current situation does result
> in under-maintained packages requiring churn, but that's true for many aspects
> of them, not least their policy version. It's a good indicator of which
> packages need some attention.
At the moment, lintian needs changes anyway whenever best-practice
changes. Would it perhaps make sense to do the same transformations in
dak - perhaps data-driven, with some regexes supplied by the Alioth or
lintian maintainers - so that what is published in the Sources file for
consumers is always the currently-preferred form?
> I think it makes the
> cognitive load of the control file larger. You have to know there are special
> rules that exist for some URLs, but not all.
I think this can be mitigated by only doing this edit for complete URLs
that are valid-but-deprecated, with suitable redirections also in place
server-side.
S
