On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:03:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I submit that lintian warnings are entirely out of scope for the task the > > project has entrusted to the ftp team, and that mentioning this at all as a > > factor in making the NEW queue "painless" indicates there's a problem with > > the process as implemented. > > - lintian *warnings* are those points that even the lintian maintainers are > > not confident are always indicative of bugs. There's really no reason for > > the ftp team to look at these as a condition for NEW acceptance. > Minor correction: lintian warnings are those points that the Lintian > maintainers are either not confident are indicative of bugs or indicate > bugs that are not severity important or higher. Right - sorry for the imprecision. > > - Even with lintian errors, there are many that are definitely bugs but > > which should not be grounds for a reject from the archive because they're > > *minor* bugs, and the ftp team should not be in the business of enforcing > > lintian cleanness as a condition of acceptance into the archive because > > this is (and always will be) a false measure of package quality.[1] > There should be no minor-severity bugs that result in lintian errors. If > there are, that's a bug in Lintian. Please report it. The lowest > threshold that produces an E tag is severity: important, likelihood: > possible. I know this is the current lintian policy on E vs. W, but that this wasn't the case historically. Is this the case for lintian 1.24? I believe that's the version in use on ftp-master currently. (It also appears to be the version that will be shipping with lenny?) And even under the new classification, "possibly important" bugs are still a far cry from things that should be treated as reasons for rejects, IMHO. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
