Re: Archive section in debian/control

2009-11-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > - it provides a hint to the ftp team about the section it might belong in > - it gives us a way to see when the ftp team and the maintainer disagree >about the correct section (reminder mails to the maintainer on override >mismatch) > - it gives users useful in

Re: Archive section in debian/control (was Re: Lintian based autorejects)

2009-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:12:11PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > (N.B.: this check would fail even in the case of a package with a > > pre-existing section override in the archive. What's the sense of > > that? > > Let the maintainer get the nag mail after the fact telling them to > > reconcil

Archive section in debian/control (was Re: Lintian based autorejects)

2009-11-01 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:55 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Seems to me like there's no point in asking the ftpmasters to come > up with > > the source package section name because the package author didn't > notice > > and set one before the first upload. Although I do agree that if > we're >