Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > or we could disallow the override of >= E: errors in lintian, and make > lintian reboot your computer, fill your gpg with /dev/random bits, and > install windows over your Debian if you override such errors.
I'd love it if lintian were at a point where it would make sense to do that, but as a lintian maintainer, I'm afraid that it's not. Not all errors are created equal, and some of them should legitimately be overridable. We've talked for quite a while about having finer-grained control over lintian messages than the current three-tier system, in part to allow something like this (automatic dak rejection on certain lintian errors, for instance), but I'm way short on time. :/ For example, to take the lintian error that started this thread, there are some arch: all packages in the archive with architecture-specific objects that at least on a cursory glance I couldn't declare wrong. They're development packages for cross-compilation and the arch-specific objects are libraries for the target. That seems like a legitimate case for a lintian override to me. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
