Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-05 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Vincent, On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 3:52 PM McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield) wrote: > > I really don't know what's better. I lean toward adding it. Lowercase 'd' added here: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/d6fe1e5426a7897a3c4af42fa216a740532978e6 Kind regards Felix

Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-05 Thread McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield)
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 03:13:09PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: >Hi Vincent, > >On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:32 PM McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield) > wrote: >> >> +} elsif ($basename =~ >> m/^(?:.*\.)?(?:changelog|NEWS|TODO).[dD]ebian$/o) { > >My check does not currently implement the

Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-05 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Vincent, On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:32 PM McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield) wrote: > > I can't see anything in policy that requires these naming minutiae. We would like to shed the image of enforcer. Only a few Lintian tags relate to policy. Lintian provides packaging advice for the benefit

Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-05 Thread McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield)
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 09:50:32AM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: >Implemented for NEWS, which was your primary concern: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/ae38f4d7301ba8a6064025b86984d49843d61355 > Looks awesome. I was working on a hack but this is much better. One question

Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-05 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Vincent, On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 6:33 PM Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > The reason for this appears to be longstanding, see bug 429510. That bug indicates that the behavior is inconsistent between README/NEWS/TODO. > Perhaps lintian could warn about this? Implemented for NEWS, which was your

Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-03 Thread McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield)
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 08:38:55PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: >Hi Vincent, > > >> There may already be a similar check for debian/[README|TODO].Debian > >Which tag are you referring to, please? > I'm sorry, I don't know of one. I was just speculating that lintian may have a check like this.

Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-03 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Vincent, On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 6:33 PM Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > The reason for this appears to be longstanding, see bug 429510. > > This issue may go away with a later debhelper compatibility level > but since it's been around since 2007, perhaps it's worth a lintian rule. > > Perhaps

Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian

2019-12-03 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: lintian Version: 2.39.0 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, unison (2.48.4-3) was released without an important note in the NEWS file. The note was in the package source, but not included in the binary package. See bug 946041. The reason for this appears to be longstanding, see bug