Ron writes:
> Since there were strong arguments against this in the past, from more
> than one person, and since nothing has changed since, including members
> of the release team from time to time still voicing their
> dissatisfaction with the 3.0 quilt format and intent to continue not
> using
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:51:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> The devil is in your quotes here :) The point here, I think, is that in
> a project as large as Debian you will always find "somebody" that
> disagrees with a specific "new" practice. Unfortunately that practice
> might be beneficial f
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:47:03PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Generally speaking, Debian needs a way to promote best practices,
> > because there *are* practices that are better than others and uniforming
> > on them is a way to both improve the quality of our maintenance work and
> > reduce b
On 2013-04-09 09:23, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Thanks for this interesting discussion. I think it's an important one to
> have, too.
>
Hi,
> Generally speaking, Debian needs a way to promote best practices,
> because there *are* practices that are better than others and uniforming
> on them is
Stefano Zacchiroli writes:
> Personally, I'd love if the lintian maintainers could assume their
> responsibility as promoting the adoption of best-practices. After all,
> it is you people who are the first steward of package quality, thanks to
> lintian. As a developer I'd have no problem whatsoe
Thanks for this interesting discussion. I think it's an important one to
have, too.
Generally speaking, Debian needs a way to promote best practices,
because there *are* practices that are better than others and uniforming
on them is a way to both improve the quality of our maintenance work and
re
* Niels Thykier , 2013-03-29, 01:28:
With #359059 being fixed in 2.5.12, perhaps it is worth for us to
consider if Lintian could be used for more than "mere" flaw reporting.
Like adding a new "kind" of tag that is not a "flaw" but simply a
"property" of the package[2].
[...]
[2] Originally
On 29/03/13 at 01:28 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure we can in general promote the use of 3.0 (quilt) over 1.0
> via Lintian at the moment[1].
>
> Though I noticed that people are writing their own tools to extract
> things like "what source format is used" or "what build syst
Hi,
I am not sure we can in general promote the use of 3.0 (quilt) over 1.0
via Lintian at the moment[1].
Though I noticed that people are writing their own tools to extract
things like "what source format is used" or "what build systems are
used". With #359059 being fixed in 2.5.12, perhaps it
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: normal
(this request sounds obvious, but I couldn't find a bug about it)
Hi,
According to http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/dpkg-v3/, there is now
basically one third of the packages using the 3.0 (quilt) format.
It would be great if lintian could suggest a
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