[ovs-dev] Bug#663051: Bug#663051: Lots of (sometimes serious) lintian errors

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Thu Mar 8 19:15:28 UTC 2012


On 03/09/2012 01:09 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:27:39PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Before uploading version 1.4.0-2+nmu1, I ran Lintian, as I always do, and
>> I have found out that lots of Lintian warnings and errors were not
>> addressed:
> 
> Thanks for the list.  I didn't realize there were so many lintian
> warnings.  (I think I might have been using lintian from squeeze
> instead of from sid.)
> 
> I'll work on these.

If you use Squeeze, then at least, use lintian from backports. It's
updated regularly, and nowadays, I believe nearly at the same time as
the one in SID.

I've sent a patch fixing the issues, please have a look.

Thomas





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