QA before uploading zope packages
Gediminas Paulauskas
menesis at pov.lt
Mon Nov 7 11:22:14 UTC 2011
2011/10/17 Arnaud Fontaine <arnau at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis at pov.lt> writes:
>
>>> * Format in debian/copyright must be versioned, for example:
>>> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=174
>>
>> Why do you think it must be versioned? Maybe it made sense earlier,
>> but the format is not expected to change any more.
>> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ is the official URL of the proposal,
>> and is a HTML page instead of text.
>
> Re-read it, for example:
>
> Format
>
> Required single line: URI of the format specification, such as:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/copyright-format/1.0
>
> And:
>
> A possible debian/copyright file for the program "X Solitaire"
> distributed in the Debian source package xsol:
>
> Format: <VERSIONED_FORMAT_URL>
> ...
>
> Moreover, at least with the latest version of lintian, it reports a
> warning if you don't use a versioned URL.
This warning is seen only with --pedantic flag. From lintian manpage:
Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and include
checks for particular Debian packaging styles and checks that
many people disagree with. Expect false positives and Lintian
tags that you don't consider useful if you use this option.
I am very disappointed that I was forced to change the correct URL to
an obsolete one just because there is a pedantic tag in the latest
version of lintian. And yes, I disagree with this tag.
> I'm not saying your packages are not lintian-clean, I'm just saying to
> check it before I upload them (for example for the DEP5 comment above,
> with the latest version of lintian, it displays a warning).
The latest version of lintian does NOT display this warning.
If you have pedantic in your lintianrc, please remove it. It does not
help to get things right, quite the opposite.
--
Gediminas
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