On 2012-03-11 23:29, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niels Thykier <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> The following tags are no longer emitted by any package in the entire
>> archive and I suspect no packager will trigger them.
> 
>  [...]
>>  loads-obsolete-confmodule
> 
> Likewise, these files still exist, so someone could mistakenly use them.
> We should drop this tag at the point that debconf stops including them so
> scripts will just error out.  (Perhaps it's worth suggesting to debconf
> that now is the time.)
> 

I filed a bug for this (#663545), but so far it looks like it will be
marked wontfix.  I guess this check gets to stay for now.  :)

>>  binary-nmu-uses-old-version-style
> 
> Are we sure that no one is going to do a manual binNMU and not know the
> new versioning system?  We still do get occasional manual binNMUs.
>

If we keep it, I think it might be worth asking the FTP people to mark
it "(non)fatal".  As I recall the multi-arch spec, mixed binNMU styles
would be "inconvenient" for M-A: same packages.

> [...]

I got a branch[1] for the rest that I intend to merge over the weekend,
unless there are any objections.


~Niels

[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/nt-bug-663516


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