On 2012-04-24 18:22, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: | | I noticed you started to file bugs for non-working debcheckouts. Was | this discussed anywhere as suggested by the developer's reference[1]?
Hi Ansgar, There are only handful of packages that mistakenly have their Vcs-* headers set up incorrectly so a minor bug reports and corrective instructions were sent. In this regard I dind't consider it worthy of "mass bug filing" process although it may have been in place. | imagine a new lintian check could also achieve. Correct. The problem is that Lintian's returned severity level does not adequately correspond to the problem level this error is causing. Many package maintainers don't even see the Lintian warnings if they don't crank up the reporting levels. I've asked Lintian maintainer to reconsider the severity of the Vcs header check. This particular case directly affects usability because every debcheckout command fails for all non-members that don't have development access to Vcs repositories. A minor bug report serves as a reminder to make maintainers aware of the problem and to consider including a fix in future uploads. Jari | [1] <http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120511055436.gi13...@taiko.cante.net
