On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:10:34PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:29:20AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > *sigh* Lintian just isn't the right tool for this job, the sort of > > random things that lintian identifies just aren't interesting for an > > upload like this. > An upload like this isn't the right thing to do to orphan a package. > Filing an O bug is enough. If you upload a package, it has to be > technically sane -- independent of your particular interest in that > package. And for that lintian tests are very well interesting. Look, I'm not saying that there's no problem with the upload here. What I'm saying is that an e-mail such as that which was sent originally sent tended rather to the hostile and appears to have unrealistic expectation as to the sort of work that a maintainer is going to do when orphaning a package. The package was basically sane before this upload, if anything meaningful had changed lintian-wise there's very little chance that it'd get looked at in an upload that's all about indicating a lack of interest in the package so there's very little reason to run lintian on it. A simple mail saying "Hey, you made a mistake" would have been much more constructive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100428153325.ga25...@sirena.org.uk
