On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 12:29, Andrey Rakhmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 10:00:10AM +0000, Arif Ali wrote: > > Hi mentors, > > > > I am working on an ITP [1] for avocado, and have an interest in this > > package for testing framework for sosreport, which is a package I am > > maintaining. > > > > However, currently it has various lintian errors, which I am working > > through with upstream at the moment. > > > > We are very close, but want to see where we stand on some of the items. > > > > like some of the following rules are of my concern, as these may take > time > > to resolve upstream, and some commands just are helper commands, and > don't > > really make sense for man pages. > > Helper commands that shouldn't be run by a human probably belong in > libexec, not in $PATH. > > > - executable-in-usr-lib > > - repeated-path-segment > > - no-manual-page > > > The key one was, if my first upload had the above 3 lintian issues, would DDs be willing to accept the package on the premise that I can continue to work on the issues upstream, and close these gaps? > > I am already fixing with upstream 2 key items from lintian (see below), > and > > have raised with upstream, and won't be uploading before these 2 items as > > we could have potential issues, especially with python3.13 support issues > > with deprecated libs. > > > > - uses-deprecated-python-stdlib > > - bash-term-in-posix-shell (already resolved upstream) > > > > I am keen to get through the initial package in, and can work on the 3 > > first bullet points over time while I work with upstream, thoughts? > > Sorry, what is your actual question? > > -- > WBR, wRAR >
