On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 02:39:12 +0000, Felix Lechner wrote: > Control: tag -1 pending
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Remove command line option --fail-on from the settings in configuration > files. (Closes: #962157) > > The configuration file supports a limited number of settings for end > users. They all relate to the display (and one allows selecting the > number of jobs). > > The --fail-on command option, on the other hand, is used only in > automated settings. No one on the team that implemented it plans to > use it in a configuration file. It was a mistake to include that > option among those available in configuration files. > > For automated settings, the --fail-on command-line option can be > conveniently enabled in a transparent and straightforward manner. It > should be added by the invocant as '--fail-on error'. > > Users who rely on the exit status are furthermore advised to examine > their scripts. The exit codes for program errors and the conditions > selected via --fail-on are now reversed. > > The new option was introduced at the same time to miminize the overall > inconvenience. Thank you for using Lintian! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hmm, well that's unfortunate, :/ as the support for this option in the config file makes it very convenient to set a global value different than the default, instead of having to modify all local instances to use the same value. Please could you restore this support and add a value to denote «none» or perhaps a --no-fail-on or similar? (I'd personally have in general more stuff configurable via the config file rather than less.) Thanks, Guillem