Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which currently *barely* makes the W threshold. I think a very good

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. I do think the warning is correct for a lint program, and

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sune Vuorela wrote: [...] And other warnings that could be changed: dbg-package-missing-depends - if there 1 dbg package and multiple arch depending packages beside that. Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, depends on what Joey prefers) that will

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, depends on what Joey prefers) that will basically scan debian/*/foo-dbg/usr/lib/debug/(*) and try to find a file under debian/*/ matching the subgrouped

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, depends on what Joey prefers) that will basically scan debian/*/foo-dbg/usr/lib/debug/(*) and try to find a file under debian/*/ matching the

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using ORed depends, I forgot to say. How would OR'ed depends work? let us look at a example: package: kdepim-dbg depends: korganizer (= ${binary:Version})|kaddressbook (=${binary:version}) version: 4.1.3-1 now, I install korganizer

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
The best solution would just be to drop most -dbg packages, drop maintainer-uploaded binary packages (using the buildd built packages instead), install the dh_strip from debug.d.n on all the buildds and get people to use -dbgsym packages from debug.d.n. -- bye, pabs

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Paul Wise wrote: The best solution would just be to drop most -dbg packages, drop maintainer-uploaded binary packages (using the buildd built packages instead), install the dh_strip from debug.d.n on all the buildds and get people to use -dbgsym packages from debug.d.n. a) That doesn't