[SCM] FFmpeg packaging branch, master, updated. debian/0.5+svn20090609-1-22-g6b646aa

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 16:07:09 UTC 2009


On Monday 13 July 2009 11:05:29 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> ceros-guest at users.alioth.debian.org writes:
> > The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> > commit 6b646aad457d4ea057b4d8c56a1c01a029e0320f
> > Author: Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>
> > Date:   Mon Jul 13 10:51:46 2009 -0400
> >
> >     Revert "Remove debian/lib*.lintian-overrides: The fact theat we
> > already know about the PIC issues and do not fix them ourselves does not
> > mean that we keep them on purpose, so the lintian warning is well
> > justified and *not* a false positive."
> >
> >     This reverts commit d6a9853a846706d494af1b1c3b2aa9bbf265cb4d.
> >
> >     lintian finding relocatable text in shared libraries is not a false
> > positive. Also, these are lintian errors, not warnings. At best, we are
> > adding the overrides because we are making an exception to policy.
>
> Is it really necessary to start a commit war here?
>
> this change was proposed previously on this mailing list, with no
> responses. You obviously disagree but that does not excuse not
> discussing this.

The only discussion about the override files I could find were from you where you 
disagreed with the comments on them, which has since been fixed. Otherwise, you 
seemed ok with them.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2009-
May/004083.html

> Andres, this is not the first time that you commit controversive and
> uncoordinated change to the repository. May I ask you please to be a bit
> more careful here? E.g. you could refrain from pushing your commit
> directly to the repo, but use git-format-patch(1) to propose your
> changes.

-- 
Regards,
Andres



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