Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> writes: > Please consider at least "X" (experimental), or maybe "I". I'm not sure > what is the correct progression in severity: X, I, P ...?
> - By A.D 2010 this culd be a signal to maintainers (especially Debian) to > encourage them to start using services like Alioth. > - Sometimes, developer may have forgot to add Vcs-* headers, when lintian > wasn't there to notify about them. There are experienced and well-respected Debian developers who do not use any VCS system (Clint Adams comes to mind from his recent blog post on the topic). It's also common not to use a VCS system for QA work. Several people have stated over the years that for many simple packages the archive itself is an adequate VCS. Lintian is not intended to be a mechanism for pushing practices that aren't already the general consensus of the project. > It could also be argued that messages like these are not useful: > P: package: no-upstream-changelog > The upstream could say that he sees no value of keeping ChangeLog for > himself is if he's the sole developer and not participating in a team. The purpose of that tag is to catch packaging where the packager forgot to install the upstream changelog. It's certainty: wild-guess because, in the cases where upstream supplies no changelog, there's nothing to do on the Debian packaging side and the tag is a false positive. -- 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
