On 2009-07-19, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Do we have evidence that maintainers have damaged the project in the past by
> willingfully upload packages with overriden lintian errors?
Damaged the project... no. Caused a RC bug to be overlooked... yes.
I recently encountered a package where the library
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Damaged the project... no. Caused a RC bug to be overlooked... yes.
> I recently encountered a package where the library's binary package
> was not named after the SONAME. This caused a lintian error which was...
> overridden. And it broke
Charles Plessy wrote:
Hi,
> Do we have evidence that maintainers have damaged the project in the past by
> willingfully upload packages with overriden lintian errors?
We sure have a few people that would blindly add overrides rather than
fixing the actual cause of the lintian warning/error. No
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I guess we need a plan to fix some maintainer scripts, or am I grossly
> overlooking things here?
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper/autoscripts>cat postinst-menu
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
Which works fine in this case.
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 03:45:13PM +, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2009-07-18, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Ah, so this is about not interfering with testing migration, I guess?
>
> It's not only testing migration. As an example: If you have a large chain
> of binNMUs which all need some dep-wait
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:08:50AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> And today, the NEW queue managed by four persons dedicating 5-10
> hours per week to the Debian archive contains 265 packages, some of
> them waiting for one month or more. I disagree with their decision
> to self-appoint themselves
Julien BLACHE writes:
> We sure have a few people that would blindly add overrides rather than
> fixing the actual cause of the lintian warning/error. No doubt about
> that.
This might be a symptom of the wider problem, that people see Lintian
not as a series of warning lights indicating probabl
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 22:28:23 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> And also, under zsh:
> | $ which doublefailure 2>/dev/null
> | doublefailure not found
>
> Leading to:
> | if [ -x `which icanhazfailure 2>/dev/null` ] ; then echo FAIL ; fi
> | [: too many arguments
>
Why would you point /bin/s
Hello everybody,
This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal.
What actually needs to be done is:
* Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default,
make another essential package depend on dash. Prompt the user before
diverting on int
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On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> There are a great many Debian changelog messages along the lines of
> “made change foo to keep Lintian happy” as though that were the only
> readon why such a change would be beneficial. Apart from being bloody
> useless, that kind of changelog message stro
On Sun Jul 19 18:04, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal.
>
Sounds like a good plan, I really hope we can go ahead with this for
squeeze.
Matt
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal.
>
> What actually needs to be done is:
> * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default,
> make an
Le Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:44:00AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
>
> While I can understand your frustration, your argument looks flawed to
> me. The measure of refusing _automatically_ uploads being affected by
> (certain) lintian errors can not be classified as "a new duty",
> precisely be
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