Re: Lintian says "package-contains-ancient-file"

2013-05-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13223 March 1977, Joey Hess wrote: > I think the DAK rejects are based on lintian checks now, but am not 100% > sure. Correct. > An ovrride would probably work. Not currently, "package-contains-ancient-file" is a fatal tag. > I think it would be reasonable to file a bug on lintian that this

Re: Lintian says "package-contains-ancient-file"

2013-05-26 Thread Joey Hess
Olе Streicher wrote: > Therefore, the package contains a couple of files which are quite old -- > some help files, sources, documentation etc. date 1983 and 1984. This > leads to the Lintian *error* shown in the subject. Although I think it > is reasonable to overwrite this tag (the files actually

Lintian says "package-contains-ancient-file"

2013-05-26 Thread Olе Streicher
Hi, I am currently working on the (re-)packaging of the "IRAF" astronomical package [1]. This is a huge package with old roots -- the history goes back to the early eighties. Therefore, the package contains a couple of files which are quite old -- some help files, sources, documentation etc. date