Chris, On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: > Paul, > >> Oh, I see. Personally, my only concern was that a lintian error would >> prevent an uploaded, released package from migrating to testing. > > Hm? Lintian has no effect on migrations from unstable to testing.
I never knew that, mainly because I never tried getting a package uploaded in that state. The whole thing caught me off guard. > ... > See #870722. This was fixed in 4th August in: > > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=126157380dc0eba302f3d476b1cffc13f968c207 That is great. The next lintian release should be able to close this bug then, unless Stefan disagrees. Thank you! Paul Hardy