Russ Allbery: >> 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.
For reference, Russ is correct. For the people curious about the concrete tags, please see [1]. Thanks, ~Niels [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/#lintianrejects
