Hi Sam, On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:27 AM Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote: > > Based on that I think we'd like lintian to detect when dh is not used > and allow maintainers to override the tag if they have an adequate > justification for not using dh.
I tentatively added a new tag called 'no-dh-sequencer' to Lintian. More details are available here: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/d0b5b337a61e3ae17e2c7b22621fdd53a9932fad > It would be even better to detect some of the adequate justifications > automatically like Haskell packages. I tried to exclude Haskell packages. The mechanism can probably be improved. > I'm opening this bug to track the issue. I kept the bug open to invite further discussion. As a side note, it was pretty hard to construct a test case. I hadn't used anything other than dh since Joey wrote his blog post about everyone's grandpa. Kind regards Felix Lechner