Darren O. Benham writes: > The original authors of Lintian, however, felt value in including base and > oldlibs in the check.
It's their choice ;) > For my opinion, base section should either be defined as to what goes in > and who decides or the base section removed. I choose the second ;) What's the point in using the sectionning feature to caracterize the inclusion into base.tgz, which is a completely orthogonal issue, thus shadowing otherwise useful information ? > In reality, the base section idea could be better served by shuffling the > priorities and better defining the levels... but that's another issue. Not even that, IMHO. base.tgz is determined by the boot-floppies team, and using either maintainer-defined fields will cause duplication of the decision path, and thus probably headaches for some people. Regards, -- Yann.
