Hi, On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:57 AM Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Is there some new external factor that make any unaddressed lintian > warnings problematic ?
That may go beyond the scope of the present discussion, but yes: First, Lintian packaging hints are always viewed as imperfections; contributors strive to make their packages "Lintian-clean". Second, we now offer performance measures that will eventually help to improve or drop tags people find "noisy," i.e. those with a high rate of false positives. Here is an example for a tag that, being 95% accurate, works well. [1] The tag 'outdated-standards-version' operates completely outside of that paradigm. It always is, and forever will be, noisy. I see myself as an advocate for the folks who like Lintian but are annoyed by it. More often than not, they are right. Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/spelling-error-in-binary
