Re: Bug#663516: lintian: Should we retire old/reundant tags
On 2012-03-11 23:29, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
>
>> The following tags are no longer emitted by any package in the entire
>> archive and I suspect no packager will trigger them.
>
> [...]
>> loads-obsolete-confmodule
>
> Likewise, these files still exist, so someone could mistakenly use them.
> We should drop this tag at the point that debconf stops including them so
> scripts will just error out. (Perhaps it's worth suggesting to debconf
> that now is the time.)
>
I filed a bug for this (#663545), but so far it looks like it will be
marked wontfix. I guess this check gets to stay for now. :)
>> binary-nmu-uses-old-version-style
>
> Are we sure that no one is going to do a manual binNMU and not know the
> new versioning system? We still do get occasional manual binNMUs.
>
If we keep it, I think it might be worth asking the FTP people to mark
it "(non)fatal". As I recall the multi-arch spec, mixed binNMU styles
would be "inconvenient" for M-A: same packages.
> [...]
I got a branch[1] for the rest that I intend to merge over the weekend,
unless there are any objections.
~Niels
[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/nt-bug-663516
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