Bug#812248: lintian: don't check Homepage field (and similar) against dbgsym packages
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> For those not on IRC: I think dbgsym should warrant as little attention
> at package build time from the average maintainers as entirely possible.
> Having people override tags in a package they did not build directly
> seems like a waste of their time. (FTR, not saying that every lintian
> tag in a dbgsym should be silenced in Lintian. We could certainly want
> to fix debhelper in some cases)
I've never been very happy with how Lintian reported this specific check,
since it emits it for every binary package as a binary metadata field
check. It would be nicer if it were a source package check so that it
would only be emitted once per source package, but that would require
somewhat more sophistication to ensure that each binary package gets an
appropriate Homepage control field if people are doing complicated things
with putting this field into separate binary package stanzas instead of
just in the source package stanza.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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