On Saturday 5 January 2008 14:43, Steve McIntyre wrote: > As you might expect (as I was the requester for this feature) I'd > *really* prefer the former option. My initial reasoning for it is that > I want to make it immediately visible to sponsors if a package has > suppressed lintian warnings. If it's not the default behaviour to list > them, then I'd be worried that some people just won't notice.
I think that a sponsor should review candidate packages more than just running lintian over them. If I get a completely new package to review I examine at least all files in the debian/ dir closely. If it's an update to a package I sponsored before, I at least debdiff it with the archive version, then added overrides would come up aswell. Wrong overrides should be caught by proper package review. Sometimes one slips through - bad luck then, it's not the end of the world. I don't think that lintian should be verbose about legitimate attempts to make it less verbose. It defeats the point, really. Thijs
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