[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#798900: Source files

[Ole Streicher]

On 14.10.2015 10:35, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> Le 14 octobre 2015 08:51:16 GMT+02:00, Ole Streicher <olebole at debian.org> a écrit :
>> I am not a specialist at all for Javascript, and all I try is just
>> to keep a Python package (with a very responsive upstream!) in a
>> good shape. Unfortunately, nobody with Javascript experience and
>> also nobody from the Lintian team (who wrote the heuristics to
>> identify this file as non-source, and also underlined that they
>> still claim the file to be non-source) took part in the discussion
>> here so far. It looks a bit weird for me that they create a Lintian
>> "error" and seem not to have a (even preliminary and discussable)
>> "source" definition. So, I think that the lintian tag in question
>> is more a "wild guess" and should be marked as such.
>
> Next Lintian version will count ; and ne more clever.
>
> However line > 512 will be tagged due to regex récursion problèm and
> it is totally insane.

What I meant here is that you should explain a bit what you consider a 
source and what not -- here for the discussion, and in the lintian tag 
documentation for the help of the users. Just experimenting some random 
heuristics without a proper definition (at least a working one) is not 
enough to qualify the tag for something other than "experimental", IMO.

Best regards

Ole