Hi,
as I'm still quite new with contributing to PureOS I faced a question yesterday while working on T1076 and T1079.
While preparing seahorse for byzantium lintian was complaining about 'invalid-field-for-derivative' for the still existing Uploaders field.
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/invalid-field-for-derivative
Looking at https://tracker.pureos.net/w/development/packaging_overview/ there is mentioned "Note that the Uploaders: field remains untouched."
What is the rationale behind that note?
Personally I believe that Lintian is of course right here, I myself e.g have users that email me from time to time about some problems in KiCad e.g. which aren't rooted in Debian as they use the PPA for Ubuntu, but got my email address from the package data. I quite almost need to point the users to the PPA owner. It's not that difficult but sometimes annoying me.
So why should a user of PureOS get in contact with the uploaders of an package in Debian if he correctly should contact the packagers for PureOS?
Why is this error message in lintian currently ignored for PureOS?
Quoting Carsten Schoenert (2021-09-24 18:49:27)
as I'm still quite new with contributing to PureOS I faced a question yesterday while working on T1076 and T1079.
While preparing seahorse for byzantium lintian was complaining about 'invalid-field-for-derivative' for the still existing Uploaders field.
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/invalid-field-for-derivative
Looking at https://tracker.pureos.net/w/development/packaging_overview/ there is mentioned "Note that the Uploaders: field remains untouched."
What is the rationale behind that note?
Personally I believe that Lintian is of course right here, I myself e.g have users that email me from time to time about some problems in KiCad e.g. which aren't rooted in Debian as they use the PPA for Ubuntu, but got my email address from the package data. I quite almost need to point the users to the PPA owner. It's not that difficult but sometimes annoying me.
So why should a user of PureOS get in contact with the uploaders of an package in Debian if he correctly should contact the packagers for PureOS?
Why is this error message in lintian currently ignored for PureOS?
I don't have the answer to your question, but can point to https://tracker.pureos.net/T1023 where (as far as I know) this was last discussed, and seemingly inconclusively despite the state of that issue.
- Jonas
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