Bug#1005200: lintian: prefer-uscan-symlink should to single maintainer packages at most

2022-02-11 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 04:31:43PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > As a general case, correct package updating should not depend on > non-default local setups. About the "non-default": while working on version=5 of d/watch, I plan on changing defaults in a way that having no filenamemangle will sa

Processed: Re: Bug#1005200: lintian: prefer-uscan-symlink should to single maintainer packages at most

2022-02-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > forcemerge 1001458 -1 Bug #1001458 [lintian] lintian: tag prefer-uscan-symlink has bad name and may be wrong Bug #1005200 [lintian] lintian: prefer-uscan-symlink should to single maintainer packages at most Severity set to 'normal' from 'minor' Merged 1001458 10052

Bug#1005200: lintian: prefer-uscan-symlink should to single maintainer packages at most

2022-02-08 Thread Felix Lechner
Control: forcemerge 1001458 -1 Hi, On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:33 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > It's not clear why this would be better This tag was implemented at the suggestion of a very reputable fellow contributor, but I am also not sure I understand the benefit. We may drop the tag again. I

Bug#1005200: lintian: prefer-uscan-symlink should to single maintainer packages at most

2022-02-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: minor The relatively new prefer-uscan-symlink tag suggests it's better to rely on a setting ~/.devscripts instead of using filenamemangle in debian/watch. It's not clear why this would be better in any case and the uscan man page that is referenced does