Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-21 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Christoph, On Friday, 11 Nov 2005, you wrote: > Maybe lintian could detect if if was running on stable when it should > be on unstable, and warn the user. I'm not sure how to do this, since > there are legitimate uses on stable where you wouldn't want to get the > warning. it could parse the

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Alexander Schmehl] > Curently it's quite easy to run unstables lintian, debootstrap and > pbuilder on system running stable for the other packages. So I don't > see a big problem creating and testing packages on a stable system. It would make more sense to me to run lintian *inside* pbuilder, t

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-11 23:41]: > Op vr, 11-11-2005 te 15:28 +0100, schreef Nico Golde: > > So what about a special exception which provides updated > > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > > Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. You n

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: [...] > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be > fixed. That's imho wrong idea because of at least one

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr, 11-11-2005 te 15:28 +0100, schreef Nico Golde: > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. You need no just unstable's linda/lintian; you also need unstable's libraries

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05 15:28]: > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be > fixed. Curently it's quite easy to run unstables lintian, debootstr

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian & > linda packages for the stable distribution? Is it technical possible? > I mean becaused it should be fixed. It might not be necessary as an exception: perhaps the rul

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Nico Golde in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be > fixed. This doesn't make sense. You need unstable to build on unstable, and only upd

getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, It seems that not every new maintainer is building a package on an unstable system which is recommended (or at least a version with the current policy version). So there are errors in packages which come to debian-mentors which are checked with an old version of the debian policy. So what a