On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:15:58PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > 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. >
*agree* I completely disagree with this lintian warning and prefer to use "Author(s)". -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com
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