Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

Joey Hess writes:

 > > > b) Lintian already has a local exception mechanism, which was announced to
 > > >    debian-devel-announce recently.
                       ^^^^^^^^

 
 > > I've not seen that announcement, and I've been looking for such announcements.
 > > 
 > > What was the subject line?
 > 
 > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9912/msg00971.html
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

It seems to me that very many developers will be unaware of
this. Myself, for example - reading -devel is just too much junk
mail. It should have been posted to -announce, surely?

Matthew

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