Roger Leigh <[email protected]> (19/06/2011): > As mentioned on IRC, it might make sense to fail the build > outright if lintian fails. While probably not appropriate > for buildds (it would depend upon the lintian version on > the host, which could be too old or too new and hence result > in false positives) it would be useful for developers > building packages for upload. OTOH, maybe just highlighting > in red would be sufficient for most cases.
Not all builds target the Debian archive. Not all archives implement lintian-based autorejects. Build host's lintian might be buggy (and overriding for a lintian bug which wouldn't be triggered on ftp-master looks bad). I can probably come up with a few more reasons not to do that. Mraw, KiBi.
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