Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (129 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Michal Vyskocil wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 13:57:17 Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > > BTW, warnings like those that message
> > > catalogs aren't marked %lang should not be suppressed but rather fixed in
> > > the sources.
> >
> > Actually no warnings should be suppressed at all IMO. 
>
> There is a big exception from that rule - in case we distribute a program 
> without access to its source code (for example Sun/IBM Java). These packages 
> contains some issues in binaries like executable stack, or something else 
> which is unfixable for packager. So suppressing of this messages is useful 
> because it's easier found a packaging bugs in shorter rpmlint output.

Yet such information is valuable to know about a package. If a
binary package doesn't fulfil our standards why lie about it?
Of course flooding the log with stuff you can't fix anways isn't
optimal either. Maybe a summary of ignored errors would satisfy both
needs.

cu
Ludwig

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