Bug#1085010: lintian: make appstream optional

2024-10-20 Thread Philippe Cerfon
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 5:49 PM Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > Barring more substantial arguments against installing > appstream by default, I would be inclined to closing this bug as "wontfix". I see. Well I guess either I just uninstall it then or make a dummy package to fulfill the "depende

Bug#1085010: lintian: make appstream optional

2024-10-18 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 2024-10-17 21:30, Philippe Cerfon wrote: Hi. On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 3:53 PM Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: I'm not sure not issuing tags based on the presence of optional dependencies is a good idea. I think it would lead to confusion and output reproducibility problems. Would that stil

Bug#1085010: lintian: make appstream optional

2024-10-17 Thread Philippe Cerfon
Hi. On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 3:53 PM Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > I'm not sure not issuing tags based on the presence of optional > dependencies is a good idea. I think it would lead to confusion and > output reproducibility problems. Would that still be a problem if lintian would just exit

Bug#1085010: lintian: make appstream optional

2024-10-17 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 2024-10-12 18:02, Philippe Cerfon wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.119.0 Severity: wishlist Hi. May I kindly ask to consider whether it would be possible to have the appstream package only as an optional dependency? If installed it also enables integration with apt, which one may or may n

Bug#1085010: lintian: make appstream optional

2024-10-12 Thread Philippe Cerfon
Package: lintian Version: 2.119.0 Severity: wishlist Hi. May I kindly ask to consider whether it would be possible to have the appstream package only as an optional dependency? If installed it also enables integration with apt, which one may or may not want. Maybe it could be made a recommended