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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: bogus lintian warning
From:       Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb () becket ! net>
Date:       2005-10-01 17:20:12
Message-ID: 87k6gxtar7.fsf () becket ! becket ! net
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

> And lintian does pester about outdated config.sub/guess, etc.  These
> warnings are useful from time to time.

Those problems can be fixed without violating Debian rules too. :)

>> It does make sense to warn against Debian developers who have *added*
>> a CVS directory not present in the upstream source, but that's a
>> different matter.
>
> Or those who screw up and add it to a non-orig .orig.tar.gz (and by that I
> do NOT mean a modified upstream one, I mean a re-generated tarball during
> build because someone screwed up).
>
> 99.9% of the time, one just ignores these lintian warnings as one knows it
> comes from the upstream tarball.

I'd rather not have warnings that must be ignored 99.9% of the time.


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