Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> writes:

>>         Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and include
>>         checks for particular Debian packaging styles, *checks that are
>>         very frequently wrong*, and checks that many people disagree
>>         with.  Expect false positives and Lintian tags that you don't
>>         consider useful if you use this option.  Adding overrides for
>>         pedantic tags is probably not worth the effort.

> As the person who pushed and introduced pedantic support I always felt a
> bit hesitant regarding the highlighted statement, maybe I should bring
> this up on the lintian mailing list and ask Russ for his reasons behind
> it (maybe what he wanted to express could be paraphrased).  If a check
> is wrong I don't think it should belong to the pedantic category, IMHO.

Yeah, maybe we should drop that.  I think what I was intending is already
covered by "checks that many people disagree with."  wild-guess certainty
doesn't make checks pendantic, only downgrades them to info.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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