Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > now that the "base" section has been removed (Policy 3.8.0.0), is it > still necessary to override the management of the Section field instead > of simply trusting the maintainers?
The maintainers are really bad at it? lintian.d.o alas has a ton of evidence of this, even for the very easy cases. Consider: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dev-package-should-be-section-libdevel.html http://lintian.debian.org/tags/doc-package-should-be-section-doc.html http://lintian.debian.org/tags/perl-package-should-be-section-perl.html http://lintian.debian.org/tags/python-package-should-be-section-python.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
