Bug#883772: lintian: please don't map implimentation language to sections

2018-01-13 Thread David Bremner
Guillem Jover writes: > TBH I think the distinction here is clear (at least to me), language- > specific sections should *only* contain things that are language specifc > modules that are automatically depended on, and language-specific > toolchains and similar. But nothing

Bug#883772: lintian: please don't map implimentation language to sections

2018-01-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 09:17:43 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > As summarized in > >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802488 > > the programming-language sections are a mess. It's not clear why the > user cares about the implimentation language when looking for a >

Bug#883772: lintian: please don't map implimentation language to sections

2017-12-07 Thread David Bremner
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.59 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 As summarized in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802488 the programming-language sections are a mess. It's not clear why the user cares about the implimentation language when