Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice

2018-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb writes: >> Change Lintian to expect those packages to be in fonts, I think? > Sounds good; was curious whether you were planning on waiting for the > webpages to change. Fixed in Git, pending upload: Thanks! I don't think there's anything for me personally to do here, since my

Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice

2018-09-09 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 907725 + pending thanks > Change Lintian to expect those packages to be in fonts, I think? Sounds good; was curious whether you were planning on waiting for the webpages to change. Fixed in Git, pending upload:

Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice

2018-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb writes: >>> Against the "www.debian.org" pseudo-package. >> Thanks, filed as #907782. > So, what are the next steps here on the Lintian side? Change Lintian to expect those packages to be in fonts, I think? That's apparently already what ftp-master is doing based on the sections

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Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice

2018-09-09 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 907725 + moreinfo thanks Hi Russ, > > Against the "www.debian.org" pseudo-package. > > Thanks, filed as #907782. So, what are the next steps here on the Lintian side? Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice

2018-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb writes: > Hi Russ, >> […] standardize the other direction and fix packages.debian.org to remove >> "fonts" from the definition of the x11 section. I think this also fits the >> general classification rubric of preferring the narrower, less general >> section when a package could

Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice

2018-09-01 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Russ, > […] standardize the other direction and fix packages.debian.org to remove > "fonts" from the definition of the x11 section. I think this also fits the > general classification rubric of preferring the narrower, less general > section when a package could fall into multiple sections.

Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice

2018-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.99 Severity: normal In #878609, xfonts packages were reclassified to be in the x11 section, resulting in the wrong-section-according-to-package-name tag being issued if they go to the fonts section. This was based on the text in https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/,