Package: lintian
Version: 2.107.0
Please reconsider changing and extending the context of various tags.
More specifically:
• debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri
old context: the URI
new context: the URI plus " (line 2)"
• typo-in-manual-page
old context: file, space, old word, space, new word
new context: file, space, "line ", line number, space, old word, space, new
word
In both cases the old context made it perfectly usable to override
the specific instance as it was fully sufficient to find it. (I would
not, for example, want to override typo-in-manual-page for the entire
file, but the “ot” here is correct (“test file1 -ot file2”), and it
moves lines with releases and my time is better spent elsewhere than
on needless lintian override churn.)
So, please revert this change for these two tags at least, and consider
reviewing the other tags, specifically whether less context may actually
be enough to identify the issue in question, as is here, where the line
number, which is a more fragile identifier, is not needed.
bye,
//mirabilos
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