Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

Axel Beckert writes: > Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> Could we downgrade to pedantic ? > I'd also rather downgrade than drop it. Maybe even tag it experimental. I don't think tagging it as experimental is an appropriate use of experimental, not that we've been great about this in the past. But ex

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

Hi, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Given no (strong) objections /and/ a reasonable plan for improving the > > situation, I intend to retire this tag in lintian/2.5.32. > > Could we downgrade to pedantic ? I'd also rather downgrade than drop

Bug#785329: Wrong version to which to fill

On Friday 15 May 2015 23:46:06 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Empty file. > > Care to resend ? The patch is in the first mail and in the BTS: Thanks! -- Una vez que hemos eliminado lo imposib

Bug#762105: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip incorrectly complains about files from the upstream tarball

On Thursday 14 May 2015 13:49:33 Tomasz Buchert wrote: Niel, jakub care to merge ? Bastien > On 18/09/14 18:00, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > Hi Stuart! > > Hi guys, > > (CCing Niels T.) > > Since I'm the original author of this tag, I took some time to fix > this bug. > > > * Stuart Prescott , 2014-

Bug#785329: lintian: Add check for CMake private files

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi! I am attaching a patch for detecting CMake private files. > > I am not really versed in perl, so if you think something must be changed

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: lintian > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I am considering to retire the tag hyphen-used-as-minus-sign for the > following reasons: > > * It seems to me that Debian is the one distribution that considers >this a problem. Everyon

Re: RfC: Moving not-pkg-perl-team-specific lintian tests from pkg-perl-tools to lintian proper

Hi Niels, Niels Thykier wrote: > Note that we do not have to keep the "pkg-perl" namespace when moving > them to Lintian. Sure. > In fact, we should probably move them out of said namespace as > Lintian does not reserve it. You seem to be suggesting exactly that > later, so I guess we agree here

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

* Niels Thykier , 2015-05-15, 08:29: * It seems to me that Debian is the one distribution that considers this a problem. Everyone else seems to ignore it - to my knowledge, including upstream. Yeah, these days even upstream groff renders both - and \- as HYPHEN-MINUS. Given no (strong) obje

Re: RfC: Moving not-pkg-perl-team-specific lintian tests from pkg-perl-tools to lintian proper

On 2015-05-15 21:32, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > Hi Axel, > I intent to move some lintian tests currently used by the Debian Perl > Team an packaged in the pkg-perl lintian profile shipped with > pkg-perl-tools into lintian. > > Reason is that some of the lintian checks in pkg-perl-tools are us

RfC: Moving not-pkg-perl-team-specific lintian tests from pkg-perl-tools to lintian proper

Hi, I intent to move some lintian tests currently used by the Debian Perl Team an packaged in the pkg-perl lintian profile shipped with pkg-perl-tools into lintian. Reason is that some of the lintian checks in pkg-perl-tools are useful for either also non-perl packages or perl-packages not packag