Bug#812248: lintian: don't check Homepage field (and similar) against dbgsym packages

2016-05-29 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Niels Thykier 2016-01-22 <56a1d3ac.5050...@thykier.net> > Sadly, not really. I will try to convince DSA to make the debug mirror > available to lintian.d.o, so we can see what tags the dbgsym packages > trigger. That would be awesome. I just discovered that postgresql-common's pg_buildext

Bug#812248: lintian: don't check Homepage field (and similar) against dbgsym packages

2016-01-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: > Niels Thykier writes: > >> For those not on IRC: I think dbgsym should warrant as little attention >> at package build time from the average maintainers as entirely possible. >> Having people override tags in a package they did not build directly >> seems

Bug#812248: lintian: don't check Homepage field (and similar) against dbgsym packages

2016-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier writes: > Indeed. Fortunately, most people have added the Homepage field to the > source package[1]. Perhaps we should just change the > "no-homepage-field" tag to only look at the source package (and retain > "homepage-in-binary-package" to help people who

Bug#812248: lintian: don't check Homepage field (and similar) against dbgsym packages

2016-01-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier writes: > For those not on IRC: I think dbgsym should warrant as little attention > at package build time from the average maintainers as entirely possible. > Having people override tags in a package they did not build directly > seems like a waste of their

Bug#812248: lintian: don't check Homepage field (and similar) against dbgsym packages

2016-01-21 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.39.1 Severity: minor Hi, while running lintian against a package with a non-existing upstream it complained about the missing Homepage field. It did so also for the dbgsym package. I can understand the reaoning to not want to have an override file for the

Bug#812248: lintian: don't check Homepage field (and similar) against dbgsym packages

2016-01-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Rhonda D'Vine: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.39.1 > Severity: minor > >Hi, > > while running lintian against a package with a non-existing upstream it > complained about the missing Homepage field. It did so also for the > dbgsym package. > > I can understand the reaoning to not