On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:19:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > or we could disallow the override of >= E: errors in lintian, and make > > lintian reboot your computer, fill your gpg with /dev/random bits, and > > install windows over your Debian if you override such errors. > > I'd love it if lintian were at a point where it would make sense to do > that, but as a lintian maintainer, I'm afraid that it's not. Not all > errors are created equal, and some of them should legitimately be > overridable. > > We've talked for quite a while about having finer-grained control over > lintian messages than the current three-tier system, in part to allow > something like this (automatic dak rejection on certain lintian errors, > for instance), but I'm way short on time. :/ > > For example, to take the lintian error that started this thread, there are > some arch: all packages in the archive with architecture-specific objects > that at least on a cursory glance I couldn't declare wrong. They're > development packages for cross-compilation and the arch-specific objects > are libraries for the target. That seems like a legitimate case for a > lintian override to me.
Also, BIOSes for emulators are candidates for such an override. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]