On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 07:15:56PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > There are a great many Debian changelog messages along the lines of “made > change foo to keep Lintian happy” as though that were the only readon why > such a change would be beneficial. Apart from being bloody useless, that > kind of changelog message strongly implies that the writer hasn't bothered > to understand why Lintian was programmed to complain about the issue in the > first place.
I've been guilty of this a few times. However, the lintian test in question was one that checked for a valid copyright line, and the fix was to bodge the existing valid copyright lines to match the test's regex. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
