On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Brown wrote: > > > Robin has already debianized kvirc - a graphical IRC client that uses > > > the QT toolkit. I looked the package over. It initially had many > > > lintian errors, which Robin subsequently fixed upon being pointed out. > > > Why doesn't he run lintian by himself? I thought this is a minimum skill I > > can expect from a package maintainer? > > We probably ought to make allowances for people learning stuff during > the process. In a way I'd rather have someone not know about Lintain
But when he doesn't know about lintian that means he hasn't even read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" [1]. I think we should expect from a new member of Debian who wants to maintain packages that he has at least read the (good) documentation for beginners, shouldn't we? > and then immediately fix bugs when it's pointed out than have someone > run it but not fix up all the results. There are always wrse cases... cu, Adrian [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ -- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi
