On 25-Aug-2001 Andrew Suffield wrote: > The reports on lintian.debian.org have revealed some startling > figures: > > Warnings:10188 > Errors:6995 > > ancient-standards-version (158 packages, 158 tags) > > maybe be harmless, but... > > FSSTND-dir-in-usr (103 packages, 128 tags) > no-copyright-file (13 packages, 13 tags) > > are not funny. > > A notable number of these are not very important, but quite a lot are > policy violations. Is anybody planning to file RC bugs on these?
I have allowed lintian to get crufty. Joy, Colin and myself are working to get this situation fixed. The two complaints shown above are probably already filed and possibly even fixed in unstable. I would still recommend double checking and applying bugs where appropriate.
