Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Paul Wise wrote: > The best solution would just be to drop most -dbg packages, drop > maintainer-uploaded binary packages (using the buildd built packages > instead), install the dh_strip from debug.d.n on all the buildds and > get people to use -dbgsym packages from debug.d.n. > a) That doesn't

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
The best solution would just be to drop most -dbg packages, drop maintainer-uploaded binary packages (using the buildd built packages instead), install the dh_strip from debug.d.n on all the buildds and get people to use -dbgsym packages from debug.d.n. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWi

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How would OR'ed depends work? > > let us look at a example: > > package: kdepim-dbg > depends: korganizer (= ${binary:Version})|kaddressbook (=${binary:version}) > version: 4.1.3-1 > > now, I install korganizer 4.1.3-1 and kdepim-dbg. > later, 4.1.3-2 get

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using ORed depends, I forgot to say. How would OR'ed depends work? let us look at a example: package: kdepim-dbg depends: korganizer (= ${binary:Version})|kaddressbook (=${binary:version}) version: 4.1.3-1 now, I install korganizer 4.

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, >> depends on what Joey prefers) that will basically scan >> debian/*/foo-dbg/usr/lib/debug/(*) and try to find a file under debian/*/ >> ma

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. it actually wouldn't work. > > In kde, for example kdepim, contains applications like > - korganizer > - kaddressbook > - kmail > - kpilot > > With a -dbg package depending on all apps, the user will have to install > all apps just for getting a b

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
"Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... and did that an hour ago. Apologies for not waiting a little longer > for objections / consensus. Oh, no, it's no problem. I was being too conservative. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 12:51 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was > > copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented > > as a warning and then moved to minor/c

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, > depends on what Joey prefers) that will basically scan > debian/*/foo-dbg/usr/lib/debug/(*) and try to find a file under debian/*/ > matching the subgrouped expre

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
"Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was > copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented > as a warning and then moved to minor/certain during the transition). > > I've no problem with downgradi

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sune Vuorela wrote: [...] > > And other warnings that could be changed: > dbg-package-missing-depends - if there 1 dbg package and multiple > arch depending packages beside that. > Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, depends on what Joey prefers) that will ba

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> The only thing that's been seriously discussed with an eye to >> implementation, so far as I know, is to automatically reject on the basis >> of a hand-selected and very limited subset of Lintian tags, which would >> probably not affect anything that you're doing and which would certainly >> no

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it >> is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. > > I do think the warning is correct for a lint pro

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which curr

Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it > is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which currently *barely* makes the W threshold. I think a very go