On tiisdei 27 Oktober 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > we are turning on lintian based autorejects within the next few days. > This means that packages failing a defined set of lintian tags will no > longer be accepted into the archive, but get rejected immediately. > This should help to get rid of the worst policy violations before > wasting time and resources of other people.
This will be a useful development, but I question the choice of which tags to reject. Indeed "worst policy violations" or prevention of time wasted seem like sound goals. But why then reject on the following tag: - copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate? Basically this tag is triggered if you write "Author(s):" instead of "Authors:" in debian/copyright. If I would encounter that somewhere I doubt I would file even a minor bug against the package, let alone consider it one of the "worst policy violations". Or whose time is wasted with someone writing "Author(s)"? Rejecting uploads for that, basically a graver action than calling something RC, seems disproportional to me. Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
