[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#518659: openldap: fix debhelper-but-no-misc-depends lintian warning

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 09:11:16PM +0100, Peter Marschall wrote:

> On Saturday, 7. March 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 07:28:09PM +0100, Peter Marschall wrote:
> > > Package: openldap
> > > Version: 2.4.15
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: patch

> > > low hanging fruit: the attached patch fixes the lintian warning mentioned
> > > in the subject.

> > Please don't file bug reports for these trivial lintian warnings.  That's
> > more work for the maintainers than just fixing them directly, because now
> > we have to track bug reports as well.

> That confuses me a bit.

> One the one hand, there is an open bug requesting help with package 
> maintenance /bug triaging, ...), 

And I think I speak for the whole team when I say that I'm grateful for your
added help - I'm just pointing out that filing bugs that echo lintian
warnings when the fixes are obvious isn't actually a net win. :)

> but on the other hand, when one writes comments or patches to bugs,
> and tags bugs [maybe not 100% correct sometimes]), the reaction
> does not sound positive either.
> (I.e. no reaction to patches, which may break installations)

Do you mean bug #517556?  There's been no reaction from me because the patch
is complicated and requires closer review than some of the others, but I'm
very happy that you've identified the problem and provided a patch - it will
just take a little longer to get applied than some others due to the
complexity.

> Please give me tips, what I shall do if I want to help with getting
> package in a better shape (bug numbers lower, ...) ?

I think the items Russ listed in the RFH bug are the the most important, and
particularly triaging of bugs and testing.  (The cn=config issue is not one
that will benefit from added attention from new contributors right now, I
think, because there is already a patch implementing a transition to
cn=config that needs to be evaluated and merged.)

Cheers,
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