Re: Two questions on package quality

2006-12-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Russ Allbery dijo [Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:20:37AM -0800]: > > 2. Upstream tarball contains ttf-dejavu font. Linda found that and > > complained. > > Why? > > Sure, duplication of code is a bit annoying, but ttf-dejavu appears to be > a free font, so it doesn't hurt anything that the upstream tar

Re: Two questions on package quality

2006-12-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Nikita V. Youshchenko dijo [Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:48:02AM +0300]: > Hello people. > > I was asked to sponsor a package upload. > I am in doubt on tho following issues, so I/m asking debian-devel for > comments. > > > 1. Upstream does not provide a manual page for the binary. Packager decided

Re: Two questions on package quality

2006-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikita V Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Upstream does not provide a manual page for the binary. Packager > decided to add binary-without-manpage to lintian override file, and Tag: > no-manual-for-binary to linda override file. Please don't do this. The lintian tag can be used by ot

Re: Two questions on package quality

2006-12-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > (2) binary-without-manpage/no-manual-for-binary should not be added, so > linda/lintian complains remind that manual page should be written one day, Lintian overrides are intended for false positives. Unsing them to suppress reports of valid packaging problems is c

Re: Two questions on package quality

2006-12-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 09:48 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hello people. > > I was asked to sponsor a package upload. > I am in doubt on tho following issues, so I/m asking debian-devel for > comments. > > > 1. Upstream does not provide a manual page for the binary. Packager decided > t

Two questions on package quality

2006-12-16 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello people. I was asked to sponsor a package upload. I am in doubt on tho following issues, so I/m asking debian-devel for comments. 1. Upstream does not provide a manual page for the binary. Packager decided to add binary-without-manpage to lintian override file, and Tag: no-manual-for-bin