Bug#721458: lintian.debian.org: too sticky tags?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: forcemerge 660732 -1

On 2013-08-31 21:02, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 

Hey,

> the lintian.debian.org page at
>  http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-superseded-by-perl.html
> 
> states that libversion-perl 1:0.9902-1 triggers the
> package-superseded-by-perl tag, but that was an error and supposedly
> got fixed in 2.5.15. I don't get the tag when running lintian manually
> on libversion-perl_0.9902-1_amd64.deb here.
> 

Sounds reasonable.

> It looks like the tag is sticking on the web site even when it's not
> really triggered anymore?
> 

This problem is that packages are not re-checked when a new version of
Lintian is uploaded.  So the tags emitted for a given package will
remain the same until a new version of that package is uploaded (or we
do a full run).
  Basically, we would need to solve #660732 to make this happen (so I am
merging this bug with #660732).

> (Hope this is the right place for such a report. Feel free to educate me 
>  if it isn't.)
> 

This is the correct place. :)

~Niels