On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog > entries saying “make Lintian happy”, etc. > > Lintian is not a deity to be appeased; it's a tool reporting that the > package might need fixing for explicit *reasons*, formulated by fellow > developers. The changelog entry for the fix should not even mention > Lintian and should speak only to the reason given for the check. Sounds like a target for a new lintian check ;) We are getting off-topic now, my apologies for starting that with my initial mail. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
