On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:05:22PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > FWIW, a package that I uploaded was rejected, with a comment "using > lintian would have pointed this out"; when I replied that in fact the > "error" that was being objected to was in fact an intentional > decision, I didn't even get a reply, and the package languishes > still in /REJECTED
This is not a direct consequence of Lintian; when I reject a package I reject it on its own merits. I assume you're talking about adns here. I maintain that the rejection was valid, because it's a shared-library package that doesn't follow the shared-library policy at all. (I invite anyone who would join this discussion to inspect these packages first. They are currently in /debian/project/Incoming/REJECT/adns*). I didn't reply to your mail because I thought it was mainly informative; I don't second-guess rejections unless the maintainer moves them back to Incoming. (And in that case, I leave the package to a different archive maintainer). Richard Braakman
