On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 06:12:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes:
>
> > It is not enough to check just the Debian part of a package. The
> > part that comes from upstream should be scrutinized.
>
> If you want to try to teach various upstreams to use the word "ill
Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes:
> b) They use themselves the wording illegal/legal (and do not really
> know (understand) why), continue to use it (and do not really know
> (understand) why), and do not state this from the beginning and in all
> their contributions thereafter.
> What would a te
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 05:54:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Axel Beckert writes:
>
> > I'd restrict it to packaging (i.e. the debian/ directory) and explicitly
> > exclude the file debian/copyright as any appearance of the word "legal"
> > or "illegal" in there is very likely a valid (sic!) u
Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes:
> It is not enough to check just the Debian part of a package. The
> part that comes from upstream should be scrutinized.
If you want to try to teach various upstreams to use the word "illegal"
the way that you want them to do so, feel free. You already have al
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 01:02:00AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Him
>
> Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > The word "(il)legal" is too often used in a wrong sense, both in
> > documentation, diagnostic messages, and in a code as a part of a name
> > of an identifier.
> [...]
> > "Lintian" should
Axel Beckert writes:
> I'd restrict it to packaging (i.e. the debian/ directory) and explicitly
> exclude the file debian/copyright as any appearance of the word "legal"
> or "illegal" in there is very likely a valid (sic!) usage.
Indeed, encouraging people to get into arguments with upstream ab
Him
Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> The word "(il)legal" is too often used in a wrong sense, both in
> documentation, diagnostic messages, and in a code as a part of a name
> of an identifier.
[...]
> "Lintian" should therefor search for this text string in every file
> and report it. Files wit
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
The word "(il)legal" is too often used in a wrong sense, both in
documentation, diagnostic messages, and in a code as a part of a name
of an identifier.
This should be changed to a correct name, like "(in)valid", whi
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