Package: lintian-brush
Version: 0.179
Severity: normal

Hi,

aide has a transitional package. Every time I run lintian-brush, the 
Priority: optional field gets added and removed immediately later again:

[107/5038]mh@swivel:~/packages/aide/aide (wip/lintian) $ git --no-pager show 
HEAD
commit 9870933d4167b446bf2046d063e1b92a106fed2e (HEAD -> wip/lintian)
Author: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jun 3 15:44:34 2026 +0100

    Remove redundant Priority: optional from binary stanza aide-dynamic.

    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: aide-dynamic binary: redundant-priority-optional-field
    See-also: 
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/redundant-priority-optional-field.html

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index af611b85..f51d545a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ Description: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - 
Common files

 Package: aide-dynamic
 Architecture: any
-Priority: optional
 Depends: aide (>= 0.17.3-5~), ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: aide-common (= ${source:Version})
 Section: oldlibs
[108/5039]mh@swivel:~/packages/aide/aide (wip/lintian) $ git --no-pager show 
HEAD^
commit 1a0ce11091453064323ca96cfb450430c37905a9
Author: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jun 3 15:44:34 2026 +0100

    Move transitional package aide-dynamic to oldlibs/optional per policy 4.0.1.

    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: aide-dynamic binary: 
transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional oldlibs/optional
    See-also: 
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional.html

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f51d545a..af611b85 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Description: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - 
Common files

 Package: aide-dynamic
 Architecture: any
+Priority: optional
 Depends: aide (>= 0.17.3-5~), ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: aide-common (= ${source:Version})
 Section: oldlibs
[109/5040]mh@swivel:~/packages/aide/aide (wip/lintian) $

I don't think that is particularly helpful.

Greetings
Marc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 
'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), 
(500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian-brush depends on:
ii  devscripts      2.26.9
ii  libc6           2.42-16
ii  libgcc-s1       16.1.0-1
ii  libgmp10        2:6.3.0+dfsg-5+b2
ii  libhogweed6t64  3.10.2-1+b1
ii  libnettle8t64   3.10.2-1+b1
ii  libpython3.13   3.13.12-1
ii  python3-breezy  3.3.22-1

Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends:
ii  debhelper  13.31
pn  decopy     <none>
pn  dos2unix   <none>
ii  gpg        2.4.9-4
ii  lintian    2.136.2

Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests:
pn  brz-debian         <none>
ii  debian-codemods    0.179
ii  git-buildpackage   0.9.43
ii  po-debconf         1.0.22
pn  postgresql-common  <none>

-- no debconf information

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