Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> in order to get rid of this patch in ubuntu, please include it in the
>> next lintian upload. Attached the patch we have in ubuntus lintian.

> That doesn't seem right. We can assume that someone packaging on a
> Debian system (i.e. running lintian from Debian) is preparing a Debian
> package, and someone on Ubuntu, running Ubuntu's lintian, is targetting
> Ubuntu.

> Therefore, the check as-is is valid, and quite useful: if someone is
> confused and puts an Ubuntu target in a Debian package, this will be
> detected by lintian.

Yeah, that was my reaction too -- I think this is one of those places
where Debian and Ubuntu really want to be (slightly) distinct.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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