On 2013-01-08 19:22, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: > >> No we do not atm. We could create a profile that is good starting point >> for derivatives, but I am not sure how to make it a default profile for >> derivatives without their own profile (with special casing). > > Another interesting way to approach this would be to create a profile for > Debian that removes that as a recognized header. I'm not sure if that > makes sense or not, though. >
Interesting proposal, though I cannot see how to use it to improve the situation. By default (i.e. without any --profile option or LINTIAN_PROFILE), we will use Dpkg::Vendor to find the profile. So the loading looks something like: <derivative>/main [... <parent>/main ...] debian/main Concretely for Ubuntu, the vendor load sequence looks like: ubuntu/main (succeeds) debian/main (not checked because the above is present) So, if there is a profile for the vendor profile, Lintian DTRT and loads the derivatives profile. Otherwise it will load the debian/main profile, which is the "default" profile Debian. So either it will not recognise the "original-maintainer" field (which we want for Debian) or it will recognise said field (which we want for derivatives). At least that is my understanding of the situation right now. I am sure we can do something about it, but I'd like to avoid special casing if possible. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
