Hi, On Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 at 15:06:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > The second category is named "error" and the tags listed can not be > > overridden. > > I don't think it's appropriate to make, for instance, > dir-or-file-in-var-www instantly fatal without following the usual > mass-bug-filing procedure. If you'd like mass bugs to be filed based on > these lintian tags but don't have time, let me know if I can help (I can't > promise to deal with all of them). > > I'm not arguing that dir-or-file-in-var-www is not a bug - it is - but it's > a technical problem that needs a transition (moving files around, > reconfiguration, probably a migration path in many cases), rather than just > some incorrect boilerplate in debian/copyright that can easily be fixed > before uploading. Thankfully, we have a procedure to deal with buggy > packages, i.e. a bug tracking system :-) together with processes for NMU or > removal of packages that are too buggy.
+1 from me for these two paragraphs.
Currently I have no idea how to fix any issues with munin in unstable (as I
dont have a migration plan/path for /var/www/munin which I like/consider
sensible) and the idea to upload munin 1.4 (which is scheduled for release in
November/December this year) to experimental is stalled atm too, for the same
reason. Which IMO is pretty sad.
> I'm in favour of auto-rejecting packages with very serious packaging
> problems, but auto-rejecting makes bugs "worse than RC", so IMO it's
> necessary to be more conservative about existing packages
+1 again.
> - if your package
> has an RC bug open, you can still upload it to fix other (possibly RC)
> bugs, but if your package is being auto-rejected, you have no choice but to
> fix the auto-reject before the next (successful) upload.
>
> I realise this is somewhat deliberate, to give maintainers a strong
> incentive to fix their packages. However, it seems disproportionate: we
> don't enforce that for RC bugs, even those with severity 'critical', so
> this is effectively creating a class of bugs more severe than 'critical'.
> It seems unwise to do that without the relevant bugs at least being tracked
> as RC first!
>
> Some examples of tags I consider reasonable to auto-reject, because they
> should be easy to fix (but many of them should be bug reports anyway):
> - binary-file-compressed-with-upx
> - copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate
> - missing-dependency-on-perlapi
> - section-is-dh_make-template
>
> Some examples of tags where I do not consider this reasonable until bugs
> have been filed:
> - statically-linked-binary
> - mknod-in-maintainer-script
> - debian-rules-not-a-makefile
> - dir-or-file-in-var-www
Again, +1.
regards,
Holger
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