Re: Lintian changes for LTS development?

2021-09-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:46:13 +0100 "Chris Lamb" wrote: > Hi Ola, > > > My guess has been that we should not generally fix lintian warnings > > unless they are really important. > > (Agree with this, of course.) > > > So I assume quite a few of them could be removed. But maybe I'm > > wrong h

Re: Lintian changes for LTS development?

2021-09-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 04:58:02PM -, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi, > > Whilst I think of it, are there any changes to Lintian that folks > here might consider particularly useful when doing LTS development? To which lintian? Running stretch lintian tends to give more useful information for packa

Re: Lintian changes for LTS development?

2021-09-28 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Ola, > My guess has been that we should not generally fix lintian warnings > unless they are really important. (Agree with this, of course.) > So I assume quite a few of them could be removed. But maybe I'm wrong > here. That could work, although it would have the drawback of potentially hid

Re: Lintian changes for LTS development?

2021-09-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Chris and others My guess has been that we should not generally fix lintian warnings unless they are really important. So I assume quite a few of them could be removed. But maybe I'm wrong here. Cheers // Ola On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 18:58, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi, > > Whilst I think of it,

Lintian changes for LTS development?

2021-09-27 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi, Whilst I think of it, are there any changes to Lintian that folks here might consider particularly useful when doing LTS development? I've already implemented some changes to not emit some specific warnings when doing security updates, particularly to do with version numbering. This is on the