Hi Russ Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd really like to not have to make this decision myself. I'd like to get > opinions and see if a consensus emerges. I personally always run lintian > with -iI --show-overrides, so I'm clearly not the target audience for this > feature one way or the other. Here are the options: > > * Show the N: line with a count of overrides per package by default and > provide an option to suppress this output if someone wants. > > * Don't show the N: line by default and provide an option to turn it on. > > Which should we do?
We should show the N: line by default and have an option to suppress the output. > Separately, I'm working on adding lintian overrides to the lintian.d.o > pages to make it easier to see how people are using overrides across the > whole archive. It looks like people sometimes just add an override when > lintian makes a mistake rather than filing a bug, so this gives us a > fighting chance of finding those bugs and fixing them. It also uncovers > some fascinating overrides currently in the archive. Great! Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
