Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While observing the lintian sources, I observed that Dep.pm has hard > coded package names for all the obsolete, essential packages etc. I was > wondering, why are these lists not generated at runtime? One reason > could be that I can't trust that the source of the data on the system is > reliable, as it may be absent/stale/unreliable. Is there any other > reason?
Answered as part of my reply to Bug#456432. > In particular, if some package enters or leaves a black/whitelist, > wouldn't a new lintian version be warranted in the current scheme of > things? Yes. If there are significant packages that become obsolete and warrant a lintian warning to aid in a transition, please file a wishlist bug against lintian and we'll include that check in the next release. debcheck is available for the normal case. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
