* Mattia Rizzolo (mattia@debian.org) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Mattia convinced me, alas. Yes, not even at the "P:" level. Perhaps I'm > > stuck on thinking about the implementation... > > Lintian recently already "regressed" in its "policy" of not being too > nagging. Already there are tags that I've been ignoring because too > annoying and way too often too hard or impossible to accomplish > (upstream gpg sig and autopkgtest come to my mind). I do not want to > have lintian go back to its situation of "way too noise, let's ignore > it" that it was several years ago. I think that's a fair sentiment but we shouldn't necessarily lump together nagging warnings that are difficult or impossible to fix with ones like this one that are trivial to fix (aka run wrap-and-sort). > > Here's another possibility however: Lintian warns about things — at > > a pedantic level — that wrap-and-sort would correct? For example, > > trailing whitespace, etc. > > I'd love it, but I believe people would just be annoyed by it. > Have you seen uploads like this: https://tracker.debian.org/news/865454 > * Replace FIXME markers with TODO markers. Silly lintian ... > > I do not want to see more of them, please let's try to stay real, even > if I personally would like to see more cleaness around. > -- Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93
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