On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 18:44 -0600, Nathan Handler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Loïc Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > What happens when lintian (or another automated check) throws an error, > > but that error is not justified? I've seen the case for all cdemu > > related packages (for example > > http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=cdemu-client ) where > > lintian reports an error but according to the packager (and my newbie > > review ;) ) the error is bogus. Maybe it would be possible to get > > overrides after asking on IRC for a MOTU to check it (even without > > reviewing the whole package, just checking the error)? > > I actually had thought about this issue a bit. This lintian error that > you mention is not the only instance of a package that is not lintian > clean that is technically correct. The issue is, I personally can't > think of any reliable way to check for these cases. Having a MOTU > check the error is certainly possible, but I would prefer to keep this > as automated as possible. This is one reason that I sent an email to > the mailing list; I am hoping that someone can come up with an > efficient way to handle these exceptions. >
For lintian there are lintian overrides. It won't solve the issue of e.g. checking installability when someone uploads two packages, one of which depends on the other. Thanks, James -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
