Rhonda D'Vine: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.39.1 > Severity: minor > > Hi, > > while running lintian against a package with a non-existing upstream it > complained about the missing Homepage field. It did so also for the > dbgsym package. > > I can understand the reaoning to not want to have an override file for > the dbgsym package, but that means that this check (and potentially > others too) shouldn't trigger a message for dbgsym packages. >
Indeed. For those not on IRC: I think dbgsym should warrant as little attention at package build time from the average maintainers as entirely possible. Having people override tags in a package they did not build directly seems like a waste of their time. (FTR, not saying that every lintian tag in a dbgsym should be silenced in Lintian. We could certainly want to fix debhelper in some cases) > I'm uncertain what checks might appear beside the missing Homepage but > I guess there might be more than this. I hope you have a better > overview on what might appear additionally to that. > > So long, > Rhonda > Sadly, not really. I will try to convince DSA to make the debug mirror available to lintian.d.o, so we can see what tags the dbgsym packages trigger. Thanks, ~Niels
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