On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: lintian > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I am considering to retire the tag hyphen-used-as-minus-sign for the > following reasons: > > * It seems to me that Debian is the one distribution that considers > this a problem. Everyone else seems to ignore it - to my knowledge, > including upstream. > > * It is not clear to me that Debian actually prioritises this > problem. Some seem consider it mostly busy work. > > - It makes up 1/6 of all info tags and does not appear to be > dropping significantly. It would be more, if we did not have an > enforced "max 10 occurances per file"[1]. > > - The tag has existed since 2004 (commit fb2e7de). To date there > are still 2000 packages with the issue. > > Given no (strong) objections /and/ a reasonable plan for improving the > situation, I intend to retire this tag in lintian/2.5.32.
Could we downgrade to pedantic ? Bastien > Thanks, > ~Niels > > [1] Like: > usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz:408 > [... 8 occurances collapsed ...] > usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz:851 > usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz 26 more occurrences not shown > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cae2spayeqx0g0aqredm+jpeqpiwo+5hmdqespfh1gh_z45d...@mail.gmail.com
