package: lintian severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, d...@list.debian.org
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:24:46PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote: [...lots of stuff I agree with deleted...] > Lintian errors and warnings tell you, roughly, "watch out, your upload > might/will make the state of this package in unstable worse than it is > as present." By contrast, info and pedantic tags say, roughly, "here is > another improvement you could make to this package." Working through > the ugprading checklist almost always falls into the latter category. Ok, you convinced me to file this very bug now. Context: On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 01:38:48PM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Holger, > > > I think I would prefer to > > dependency-on-python-version-marked-for-end-of-life > > to become a pedantic warning > > FYI I initially introduced this tag (and > python-foo-but-no-python3-foo) > as a pedantic level warning following roughly the same rationale as > you > outline. > > However, it was raised later via https://bugs.debian.org/883581. As Sean explains nicely in <87vagjt3yp....@zephyr.silentflame.com> I think dependency-on-python-version-marked-for-end-of-life should be info or pedanic at least until Buster is released. -- cheers, Holger
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