On 2009-07-23, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 07:12:57AM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On 2009-07-19, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Do we have evidence that maintainers have damaged the project in the past >> > by >> > willingfully upload packages with overriden lintian errors? >> Damaged the project... no. Caused a RC bug to be overlooked... yes. >> I recently encountered a package where the library's binary package >> was not named after the SONAME. This caused a lintian error which was... >> overridden. And it broke horribly when the SONAME change went unnoticed >> because... well... the binary was never named after the SONAME and thus >> the check wasn't active anymore. > Lintian's error on soname mismatches references both the binary package > name, and what lintian thinks the package name should be based on the actual > soname. AFAIK you can only override lintian errors by spelling them out > fully, so surely the lintian error should have reappeared in this case as > soon as the soname changed?
That would have prevented this indeed. But it looks that it did not work that way because the only override present was this one: libbotan1.8: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames This obviously didn't need changing. According to [0] there was also no other Lintian warning. Kind regards, Philipp Kern [0] http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/dan...@debian.org.html#botan-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
