Huge number of lintian messages

Henning Sprang henning at sprang.de
Fri May 1 14:07:24 CEST 2009


Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Of course we can safely ignore some of these, but IMHO that's way too many
> warnings. I think I've never seen a package with that many messages.
> Furthermore, most of them are easy to fix, also the hyphen-used-as-minus-sign is
> easy, but just a bit of work because of the sheer number of those warnings. I'd
> offer to take this one, but all the others might need some more attention as the
> fixes could involve some need for discussion.


OK,
What do you propose to do to get start working on this?

* make a little branch named "lintian-fixes"?
* fila bug report for all single errors (accumulating the hyphen stuff
into a single one)?


Henning



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