On 2013-04-07 21:22, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> writes: >> * Niels Thykier <[email protected]>, 2013-04-07, 17:33: > >>> * python(3)-depends-but-no-python(3)-helper 2.5.4 (Nov 2011) >>> - In total, some 40-46 cases >>> - both tags are "serious/possible" (E) >>> - I am considering to promote to "non-experimental". > >> I was going to propose to un-experimental this one, too. Unfortunately, a >> few of these tags are false positive. This is because people do crazy >> things like this: > >> WITH_PYTHON2 = $(shell test -f /usr/bin/dh_python2 && echo "--with python2") >> %: >> dh $@ ${WITH_PYTHON2} > >> Lintian has of course no way of knowing with will WITH_PYTHON2 expand >> to... But perhaps in these crazy cases people should just add >> overrides. (FTR, this is tracked as #659335.) > > We could also just assume that anyone using shell substitution variables > in the dh line of debian/rules know what they're doing. Lintian makes > similar assumptions elsewhere in rules handling. >
Promoted and the false-positive fixed just now. [Jakub Wilk] > > * package-contains-broken-symlink > > - nearly 12k tags in < 1000 packages > > - people seem to symlink the "weirdest" of things. > > - I am no so certain that maintaining the whitelist we are doing > > now will remain feasible. > > It's probably not. > > > - it is normal/possible (W) > > Certainty is inflated here; it should be wild-guess. > True that, demoted. > > - I am considering to drop it. > > I think we should drop it once #699059 is fixed. >>> * duplicate-files >>> - Some 35k tags in < 1000 packages >>> - a lot of that is caused by doxygen (etc.) >>> - will possibly be preceived as a lot of busy work by maintainers > >> The tag helped me to greatly reduce a binary package size once, but most >> of the time my reaction to it is "meh, I don't care". > > We could make almost all of the Doxygen noise go away by just ignoring > small files in /usr/share/doc. (The Doxygen noise is indeed really > annoying.) I kind of like the tag otherwise, but it's definitely > pedantic, not minor, and is probably pedantic/wild-guess. > > [...] Demoted the severity to pedantic. Though why do you want the certainty demoted? Given the rarity of (accidential) md5sums collisons I would say the check is practically certain (i.e. if the tag is emitted, the files listed are almost certainly identical). ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
