Control: clone -1 -2 Control: tags -1 pending Control: retitle -2 lintian: Do not assume another check will emit a tag
On 2012-07-30 02:33, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: > >> This happens to be the intended behaviour as far as I can tell (slightly >> re-arrranged due to stupid MUA): > >> """ >> # ignore packages which don't have a /usr/share/doc/$pkg directory, >> # since the copyright check will complain about this >> """ > >> Where "this" is most likely the no-copyright-file (the comment / context >> does not say). > > "this" here is "the missing /usr/share/doc/$pkg directory." > > The motivation for this and a few other places in Lintian is that certain > severe errors, such as having /usr/share/doc be missing entirely, would > produce a whole cascade of errors. There are a few places where serious > issues are deferred to one check to complain about them. (This stuff > predates when I started working on Lintian.) > > At this point, we should probably take all code like that out, since it's > possible to run only certain checks, and those may not include the checks > that complain about serious errors. The gain was never all that > significant, anyway. > Okay; I have fixed this in git for checks/changelog-file, but I didn't go through the other checks yet. Hench the clone as a TODO reminder. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
