On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 23:24, Russ Allbery<[email protected]> wrote: > We had a specific request for Lintian to not warn about UNRELEASED as the > distribution so that people could run it on each build and know that any > output meant a problem. Unfortunately, that creates the possibility for > something like this to happen, since dput and dupload only look at the > *.changes file and don't care about what's in the changelog, and Lintian's > architecture makes it very hard for it to see a mismatch between the > *.changes file and the package.
Personally, I liked a lot that warning about UNRELEASED in the changelog, even at each build: it signaled that I was working a temporary package. Maybe an option to enable/disable the check might be nice (didn't say anything when it was removed, but since we're talking about it now... :) ). Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
