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Re: lintian support in dinstall



On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:42:19PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Whoever wants to mix dinstall and lintian should please take in account
> some very simple facts:
> 
> A lintian error or a lintian warning is a just a bug, and a bug reported
> by lintian is no more important than any other ordinary bug. Packages
> should NOT be rejected because of still having bugs. [ Think about every
> dpkg upload being rejected because it does not fix *all* currently known
> bugs... ].

The patch ignores lintian warnings.

Can you provide an example of a case where a package should be installed
despite a lintian error?

-- 
Raul


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