Control: severity -1 important Hi Russ,
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:57 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > how much > (excellent!) work has been done to try to make Lintian's code flow > simpler Thank you for your kind words! > I suspect a lot of > packages are going to encounter them (presumably both will trigger on > every package that includes a copy of the current version of libtool, > which is most library packages using Automake) We can now grant summary exceptions to package families. They are called screens (which mask hints). [1] They actually simplify the checks and are beautiful little things! > an exception for autotools files would be warranted? Yes, the exception is probably warranted. If it's okay with you, however, I will postpone the decision until the cruft check, which issues the offending tag, is fixed. It is currently malfunctioning. [2] Thank you! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://lintian.debian.org/screens [2] https://bugs.debian.org/993613
