Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:08:43PM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:27 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, B

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:27 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Please join me in public embarrassme

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney > > wrote: > > > > > Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog > > > entries saying “make Lintian ha

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney > wrote: > > > Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog > > entries saying “make Lintian happy”, etc. > > > > Lintian is not a deity to be appeased; it's a tool reporting

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog > entries saying “make Lintian happy”, etc. > > Lintian is not a deity to be appeased; it's a tool reporting that the > package might need fixing for explicit *reasons*, formul

Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Finney
Jan Hauke Rahm writes: > Hi Manoj, > > I'm not going to argue with you about this. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:12:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > There is a time and a place where these lintian options are > > useful. They certainly have a place, and are recommended for > > e