On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 08:10:57AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:57 AM Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Is there some new external factor that make any unaddressed lintian > > warnings problematic ? > > That may go beyond the scope of the present discussion, but yes: > First, Lintian packaging hints are always viewed as imperfections; > contributors strive to make their packages "Lintian-clean". Second, we > now offer performance measures that will eventually help to improve or > drop tags people find "noisy," i.e. those with a high rate of false > positives. Here is an example for a tag that, being 95% accurate, > works well. [1] The tag 'outdated-standards-version' operates > completely outside of that paradigm. It always is, and forever will > be, noisy.
Then I would suggest that a new lintian category is designed to catter for such usage, so that tools might chose not to display such warnings as they do with 'P: pedantic' currently. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
