Russ Allbery wrote: > Richard Kettlewell writes: [...] > Because of the second issue below, Lintian doesn't recognize type as a way > of checking for the existence of a command. It might be worth adding it > so that we don't warn twice of the same basic thing, once confusingly.
It probably should, yes. [...] > > Given that dash implements type, an argument could be made that Policy > should permit it. On the other hand, given that equivalent functionality > is provided several other ways in Debian, I'm not sure there's any point > in adding it rather than having people just switch to which or command -v. Even command is implemented in different ways so I would suggest not to rely on it either. > >> Also a wishlist item: >> >> W: disorder source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2.2 (current is 3.8.0) > >> What would be really handy here is a pointer to policy change history. > > Like a mention of /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz? > Or probably to the online version, as I'm sure not everyone has debian-policy installed (or not on every machine). Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
