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and subject line Re: lintian: Should warn if CDBS is used
has caused the Debian Bug report #1053795,
regarding lintian: Should warn if CDBS is used
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.116.3
Severity: wishlist
The authors of CDBS stopped developing it in 2021 and it has been
orphaned in 2022. [1]
With the exclusion of Haskell packages, CDBS is mostly used by orphaned
or not actively maintained packages.
Lintian should raise a warning if it detects that a package uses CDBS.
The last maintainer of CDBS stated that he «welcome[s …] the suggestion
for a lintian warning to discourage the continued use of CDBS». [2]
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1026085
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/1026085#10
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
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cdbs is going away, there's no point in implementing this check now.
Thanks
Nilesh
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