On Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:52:59 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> writes: > > Thanks to this new Lintian tag, the current situation is that packages > > won't pass NEW without a SysV init script (unless a FTP-masters ignore > > this specific tag despite its severity). > > I haven't worked on Lintian in several years, so perhaps my information is > stale, but at least previously ftp-master rejects were not based on > severity, but rather on a hard-coded list of tags maintained by > ftp-master.
That's correct. We do also do a general review of the package and lintian feedback is one thing we do consider. Personally, I don't recall having rejected a package for this. I believe I have accepted a few and then filed a bug (even prior to the lintian check). Scott K
