Am Samstag, den 05.04.2014, 23:22 +0200 schrieb Jakub Wilk: > Thanks for your bug report. > > * Daniel Leidert <[email protected]>, 2014-04-05, 13:01: > >Because the severity of these lintian checks is relevant to the > >decision, if a package gets accepted into Debian I've added the FTP > >masters team this report to get their point of view. > > Not sure what you mean here. Would you care to elaborate why would > ftp-masters be concerned with Lintian tag severities?
Citing the Reject FAQ for Debian's NEW-Queue: "Lintian errors and warnings, without a good reason to ignore them, can get you a reject. Sometimes there are valid reasons, but then you should either file a bug against lintian if it's generally wrong, or include an override in your package, giving a reason in the changelog for it." Nuff said? > >- The severity chosen for these tags/checks is not justified by any of > >our policies, neither the Debian policy, > > Indeed. There's #726998 open to fix this. Thanks for the pointer. I'll put my opinion there and not here. [..] > >I cannot argue with the position of the Debian project and IMHO neither > >can you, so I would suggest a conservative choice for severity of these > >tags as long as we don't have a common position of the project. > > I agree that it was a mistake that these tags where added with “serious” > severity, and that “pedantic” would have been more appropriate > initially. But then, I have no doubts what will be the result of > #726998, so we might as well keep it as is, to avoid severity > serious→pedantic→serious ping-pongs. A lintian error is a reason to delay the package upload and take action on the package instead / aka fix the lintian error. The severity chosen here is IMHO not justified by any reason. And even if #726998 leads to an addition to the Debian policy or to the best packaging practices, this might as well be a "SHOULD" or "CAN" rule (and JFTR: IMHO if we add something like this to the policy, it should be a "SHOULD" rule and not more). This would *maybe* justify a lintian warning. I see no reason for severity: error here. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
