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Bug#719788: [pkg-php-pear] Bug#719788: lintian: downgrade warning for not using ${phppear:description} to wishlist




Le 15 août 2013 12:57, "Vincent Bernat" <bernat@debian.org> a écrit :
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> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.15
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
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> Dear Maintainer,

Bonjour Vincent,

> In bug #708551, a warning was introduced for PEAR packages not using
> ${phppear:description} and ${phppear:summary}. On some PEAR packages,
> the provided description are poor (starting with the package name for
> example). Therefore, the use of those macros should not be done blindly.

Unfortunately, there are no guidelines for Pear summary and description as in Debian.

> I propose this patch to
>
>  1. downgrade to wishlist the warning

I agree. But only for summary and description (keeping high severity for deps substvars).

>  2. explain to not blindly rely on PEAR package descriptions

Yes.  And propose to send better description upstream. There is no reason to keep the improvement in Debian only.

I will rework a bit the patch.

Regards

Mathieu


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