Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I am considering to retire the tag hyphen-used-as-minus-sign for the
following reasons:
* It seems to me that Debian is the one distribution that considers
this a problem. Everyone else seems to ignore it - to my knowledge,
including upstream.
* It is not clear to me that Debian actually prioritises this
problem. Some seem consider it mostly busy work.
- It makes up 1/6 of all info tags and does not appear to be
dropping significantly. It would be more, if we did not have an
enforced "max 10 occurances per file"[1].
- The tag has existed since 2004 (commit fb2e7de). To date there
are still 2000 packages with the issue.
Given no (strong) objections /and/ a reasonable plan for improving the
situation, I intend to retire this tag in lintian/2.5.32.
Thanks,
~Niels
[1] Like:
usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz:408
[... 8 occurances collapsed ...]
usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz:851
usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz 26 more occurrences not shown
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