Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:23 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > empty-binary-package > > > > Resolved by adding the word virtual to the relevant package > > > descriptions. > > > I prefer 'metapackage'. And I think t

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > empty-binary-package > > Resolved by adding the word virtual to the relevant package > > descriptions. > I prefer 'metapackage'. And I think that should go in the short > description (as in the packages generated

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] > > > out-of-date-standards-version > > > > > > Shall I apply? I guess if so then something similar ought to go into > > > trunk (I was looking at the sid branch) > > [...] > > > > There are a load of changes that should be merged to tr

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:04 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I happened to notice on packages.qa.debian.org that the kernel packages > > have 250 lintian warnings, of which the vast majority come from just a > > few easy to fix issues. > > >

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:18 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:41:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > dbg-package-missing-depends > > Add dependency on the corresponding linux-image package to each > > -dbg package. It's possible this is not appropriate for a k

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I happened to notice on packages.qa.debian.org that the kernel packages > have 250 lintian warnings, of which the vast majority come from just a > few easy to fix issues. > > The following patch address the worst (or rather, most numerous) o

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:41:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > dbg-package-missing-depends > Add dependency on the corresponding linux-image package to each > -dbg package. It's possible this is not appropriate for a kernel > -dbg in which case I could make it an override i

[PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-16 Thread Ian Campbell
I happened to notice on packages.qa.debian.org that the kernel packages have 250 lintian warnings, of which the vast majority come from just a few easy to fix issues. The following patch address the worst (or rather, most numerous) of the warnings. debhelper-but-no-misc-depends By far th