Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 19:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> There probably isn't much that Lintian can do directly about this until >> separate packages exist that people can use. Once that's true, we can >> start doing the same thing we do with PHP and Javascript libraries, >> though. > I think lintian needs to be pro-active about these things, otherwise > people will never have the motivation to remove them or package them > properly. I'm willing to have Lintian tell people to use existing packages instead of duplicating content or restructure how their package is done, but having Lintian tell people that they have to maintain a generic package for a particular application when Lintian doesn't know if this package is even a reasonable source for a generic version seems like it's going too far to me. Lintian isn't the only QA tool; I think it needs to focus on fixable problems with the current package and leave larger archive-wide QA work to other tools and other approaches. In this particular case, I think the best path forward would be to form a Flash packaging group that takes as their mission packaging the common code -- in other words, being proactive at developing the solution instead of trying to push other packagers into doing the work. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
