Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2015-05-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 pending On 2015-05-16 03:21, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] Pedantic would be the appropriate spot for this. However Jakub Wilk wrote: Yeah, these days even upstream groff renders both - and \- as HYPHEN-MINUS. Then again, this sounds as if it's indeed obsolete.

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2015-05-15 Thread Niels Thykier
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. *

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2015-05-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: Given no (strong) objections /and/ a reasonable plan for improving the situation, I intend to retire this tag in lintian/2.5.32. Could we downgrade to pedantic ? I'd also rather downgrade

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2015-05-15 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: 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.

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2015-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Axel Beckert a...@debian.org writes: Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: Could we downgrade to pedantic ? I'd also rather downgrade than drop it. Maybe even tag it experimental. I don't think tagging it as experimental is an appropriate use of experimental, not that we've been great about this in the

Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2015-05-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net, 2015-05-15, 08:29: * 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. Yeah, these days even upstream groff renders both - and \- as HYPHEN-MINUS.