Hi,
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 3:42 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>
> something needs to tell the maintainer their package is wrong.
I struggle with telling anyone that "their package is wrong," when a
maintainer, possibly overwhelmed by zealous metadata collection
(hello, DuckDuckGo), added a defensibl
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 03:10:05PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 2:26 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > It won't provide maintainers of packages that use
> > invalid settings that they are. Isn't that purpose of lintian?
> I am not sure. Is it perhaps a gray zone the Janitor cou
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 2:26 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>
> It won't provide maintainers of packages that use
> invalid settings that they are. Isn't that purpose of lintian?
I am not sure. Is it perhaps a gray zone the Janitor could fill?
There are a few open questions: Why for example does
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 01:44:31PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 12:56 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > it would simply be a list of
> > known bad values
>
> I am not sure I agree with the hardcoding of those values unless they
> create legal issues like license violations or
Processing control commands:
> retitle -1 lintian: export upstream metadata in classification tag
Bug #993813 [lintian] lintian: synchronize upstream metadata
Changed Bug title to 'lintian: export upstream metadata in classification tag'
from 'lintian: synchronize upstream metadata'.
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993813:
Control: retitle -1 lintian: export upstream metadata in classification tag
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 12:56 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>
> it would simply be a list of
> known bad values
I am not sure I agree with the hardcoding of those values unless they
create legal issues like license viola
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 12:51:43PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 12:24 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> >
> > Registration: https://github.com/join
>
> As a tool without network access, Lintian may not be well-suited to
> synchronize upstream metadata.
This wouldn't require net
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 12:24 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>
> Registration: https://github.com/join
As a tool without network access, Lintian may not be well-suited to
synchronize upstream metadata.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
Package: lintian
Version: 2.104.0
Severity: wishlist
Some packages have known incorrect values in debian/upstream/metadata. For
example:
Registration: https://github.com/join
is certain to be incorrect - as we don't package GitHub.
It would be great if lintian could warn about these.
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