Control: unblock 1006348 by -1
On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 05:15:19 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> And #1007002 is only (!) about design decision to change nearly all
> tag formats involving file paths and line numbers. It has nothing to
> do with the other two real bugs and I have no idea why they have been
> merged.
I agree with your reasoning for unmerging, and I don't understand why
they were merged either.
#1007002 was marked as blocking #1006348 "lintian: Tag
improbable-bug-number-in-closes condition considers 7-digit bug numbers
improbable", but I think that was a side-effect of the merge and I don't
consider #1007002 to be RC or a blocker for #1006348, so I'm removing
that metadata.
> Since at least I will not revert such huge changes, I'll tag #1007002
> as "wontfix" for now and downgrade it to its original severity.
>
> We can continue working on that bug report if we find someone who
> either will work on reverting all the related work (although I think,
> it's both, too late and also probably way too much work given all the
> other recent changes) or, probably much better, provide either a
> migration script or some code which also accepts the old override
> formats. In that case, I'd remove the "wontfix" again. (Sorry, Simon,
> I generally agree with #1007002, but we currently have way more severe
> issues with Lintian than #1007002. Hence I also didn't remove the
> confirmed tag.)
That makes sense to me. I should have reported #1007002 earlier (or,
ideally, a Lintian co-maintainer should have pointed out the problems with
a major tag format transition before it got that far), which would have
made pausing or reverting the transition lower-cost.
Getting a new Lintian release into testing and backports would at least
mitigate #1007002 by making sure that maintainers can write one tag format
that is equally valid for stable-backports Lintian, testing Lintian,
unstable Lintian and lintian.debian.org.
Thank you for picking up this package! It's an important QA tool and
I'm glad someone is looking after it again.
smcv
