On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:30 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > After a recent problem with a package with a fairly egregious error that > was overridden, hurting the ability of the sponsor to notice it, I added a > line of output to the default lintian output saying if any package > overrides error or warning tags. > > As I sort of suspected at the time, someone else has now objected to > having this output by default on the grounds that the point of the > override was to shut lintian up and it's easier to verify that lintian > produces no output. > > 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 prefer that lintian messages are silently overridden. > 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? I prefer the second option. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
