Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Joe Smith
"Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: wrt/ lintian, as long as the packages do work, the purely optional matter of style questions[0] should never be part of any lintian check (lintian shall only check for policy

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Russ Allbery wrote: > In other words, feel free to submit a wishlist lintian bug for things like > this. I'm going to pull up all of those once the style check facility is > available. cool, didn't know about that intention. thanks for telling. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrass

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-01-01, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I guess not since this is not defined in the policy. Maybe=20 >> if Homepage becomes a real control field. >> > > with two spaces it is formatted on the web like this: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/y

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wrt/ lintian, as long as the packages do work, the purely optional > matter of style questions[0] should never be part of any lintian check > (lintian shall only check for policy violations or general package > breakages). That is why I never would have

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Florent Rougon
"Paul Cager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The policy *does* distinguish between lines starting with one space > (paragraphs with word-wrapping) and lines starting with two or more spaces > (non-wrapped if panning is possible, otherwise hard-wrapped), so I think > there is a strong policy basis for

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-01 16:13]: > > Hi, > > * Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-01 14:13]: > >> After watching debian-mentors@ for a some time, I've found two types > >> of suggestions frequenly advised to the packagers: > >> > >> * Removing empty lines from the

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Paul Cager
> Hi, > * Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-01 14:13]: >> After watching debian-mentors@ for a some time, I've found two types >> of suggestions frequenly advised to the packagers: >> >> * Removing empty lines from the end of debian/copyright, >> debian/changelog >> >> * Using two spac

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Neil Williams wrote: > Daniel: would you agree? Let's get this once and for all clear: Given that lintian, as any automatic tool, can not catch all flaws in every case, manuall listing of the remaining flaws is always needed, I don't really care about if I need to point these flaws out in additio

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-01 15:04]: > On 2007-01-01, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess not since this is not defined in the policy. Maybe=20 > > if Homepage becomes a real control field. > > with two spaces it is formatted on the web like this: > http://packa

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-01-01, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess not since this is not defined in the policy. Maybe=20 > if Homepage becomes a real control field. with two spaces it is formatted on the web like this: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/yakuake with one space like this: http://p

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:01:47 +0600 Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After watching debian-mentors@ for a some time, I've found two types > of suggestions frequenly advised to the packagers: > > * Removing empty lines from the end of debian/copyright, > debian/changelog > > *

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-01 14:13]: > After watching debian-mentors@ for a some time, I've found two types > of suggestions frequenly advised to the packagers: > > * Removing empty lines from the end of debian/copyright, > debian/changelog > > * Using two spaces before

Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Hi, After watching debian-mentors@ for a some time, I've found two types of suggestions frequenly advised to the packagers: * Removing empty lines from the end of debian/copyright, debian/changelog * Using two spaces before 'Homepage:' field in package description. Do they look like candidate