On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:51:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
The devil is in your quotes here :) The point here, I think, is that in
a project as large as Debian you will always find somebody that
disagrees with a specific new practice. Unfortunately that practice
might be beneficial for
Ron r...@debian.org writes:
Since there were strong arguments against this in the past, from more
than one person, and since nothing has changed since, including members
of the release team from time to time still voicing their
dissatisfaction with the 3.0 quilt format and intent to continue
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:47:03PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
Generally speaking, Debian needs a way to promote best practices,
because there *are* practices that are better than others and uniforming
on them is a way to both improve the quality of our maintenance work and
reduce barriers
On 2013-04-09 09:23, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Thanks for this interesting discussion. I think it's an important one to
have, too.
Hi,
Generally speaking, Debian needs a way to promote best practices,
because there *are* practices that are better than others and uniforming
on them is a
Thanks for this interesting discussion. I think it's an important one to
have, too.
Generally speaking, Debian needs a way to promote best practices,
because there *are* practices that are better than others and uniforming
on them is a way to both improve the quality of our maintenance work and
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes:
Personally, I'd love if the lintian maintainers could assume their
responsibility as promoting the adoption of best-practices. After all,
it is you people who are the first steward of package quality, thanks to
lintian. As a developer I'd have no
* Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net, 2013-03-29, 01:28:
With #359059 being fixed in 2.5.12, perhaps it is worth for us to
consider if Lintian could be used for more than mere flaw reporting.
Like adding a new kind of tag that is not a flaw but simply a
property of the package[2].
[...]
[2]
On 29/03/13 at 01:28 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure we can in general promote the use of 3.0 (quilt) over 1.0
via Lintian at the moment[1].
Though I noticed that people are writing their own tools to extract
things like what source format is used or what build systems are
Hi,
I am not sure we can in general promote the use of 3.0 (quilt) over 1.0
via Lintian at the moment[1].
Though I noticed that people are writing their own tools to extract
things like what source format is used or what build systems are
used. With #359059 being fixed in 2.5.12, perhaps it is
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: normal
(this request sounds obvious, but I couldn't find a bug about it)
Hi,
According to http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/dpkg-v3/, there is now
basically one third of the packages using the 3.0 (quilt) format.
It would be great if lintian could suggest
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