Hi Paul,
Paul Wise wrote:
> It is rare to see an RFS that says "The package appears to be lintian
> clean." and the package (especially binary ones) actually be lintian
> clean. If we were to change the RFS template, what could we change it
> to in order to encourage accuracy and for people to actually use
> lintian and fix any issues found.
I think three things are currently unclear:
- lintian should be run on the .changes file before uploading a
package to mentors, in order to check both the source and binary
package (I know I used to run it on the .dsc file without realizing
it wasn't checking the binary package).
- The -I and --pedantic options should always be used.
- And always use the latest version from unstable.
Would writing something like "Paste the output of lintian -I --pedantic
your_package.changes" instead of filling that line automatically in the
template be a better option? I would imagine people would then try to
fix any issues before blindly sending the message to mentors.
Cheers,
--
Benoît Knecht
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110707210502.gc18...@marvin.lan
