On Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:54:16 +0200, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:

> > Checking for "deprecated" (on upstream websites which document
> > functions) or "replaced (by|with)" doesn't make any sense IMO …
> > Please just remove tese tests …
> First, I agree with you, "replaced (by|with)" and "deprecated" are too
> generic not to trigger false positives. I'll be removing them from the
> list.

Excellent!
I guess that solves most of my grievances with duck.
 
> Secondly, even if, as stated by the check certainty, the suggestion is
> at most a wild-guess, I would like to keep the test as it can still be
> useful to catch deprecated projets or links that moved on to another
> page. However, I want to have a way for users to filter the checks
> based on certainty. I'll be adding an option for that both in the cli
> arguments and the configuration file. Although, I'll keep the default
> to show all checks.

Sounds good as well.
 
> Finally, the checks for obsoletes sites is currently at a certainty of
> wild-guess. I'll be bumping that to possible as, to the contrary of the
> parked test, its a list of well known deprecated sites, and virtually
> has no chance of false positive.

I guess that makes sense for well-known obsolete sites.

Thanks for maintaining and improving duck!


Cheers,
gregor

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