Thanks for the review Adam. I've merged the parts that I'm not quoting 
below.

Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 00:16 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> 
> "As a consequence of these changes, the new Lintian release will cause
> many existing overrides to no longer apply.  We recognise that this will
> lead to some noise in the short term but are convinced that the longer
> term advantages make this worthwhile."

s/will cause/causes/?

>> We expect auto rejections to be disabled for the affected, non-fatal,
>> tags for a while to give a grace period of time for this transition.
> 
> s/of time//
> 
> Have we talked to ftp-master about that?

I briefly talked about it with Jörg. I just sent him a link to the draft so 
that he can comment (should have CCed ftp-master, sigh).

>> Current status
>> ==============
>> 
>> Thanks to Niels Thykier joining the team, Lintian 2.5.0 features a number
>> of
>> new checks and many bug fixes.  Lintian 2.5.0 closed 51 bug reports.
> 
> s/closed/closes/ ?

I used the past tense thinking the announcement is going to be sent after 
its release, but 'closes' should be okay too, I think (and well, you know 
better than me :).

>> A lot of work is still needed to complete some olds goals, start working
>> on a major infrastructure rewrite, and finally get to work on goals
>> discussed during Debconf 10, in New York City.
> 
> s/olds/old/

Oops, typo. Thanks.

> "We are continuing to make inroads towards completing the goals we have
> previously set ourselves for Lintian development and are planning
> further infrastructure changes.  We hope seen to begin work on the goals
> discussed during last year's Debconf in New York City."  [Maybe include
> a link to a discussion of the DC10 stuff?]

s/seen/soon/ :)

(after failing to find the message because of the subject...)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2010/08/msg00012.html
Not sure if it's worth including it.

> [...]
>> If you have any ideas for new tests that would be helpful to you, please
>> do submit them as wishlist bugs against the lintian package.  It's nice
>> to have a large collection of ideas known to be useful to someone to pick
>> >From when one has a few hours to work on Lintian.
> 
> s/From/from/

That was really copied and pasted from the last bits email. It appears to be 
present at least in the last two bits emails, fun.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net



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