Holger Levsen <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 12:03:46AM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: >> In an act of productive procrastination, I spent a few hours >> yesterday looking at the tags in Lintian that are currently marked >> as "Experimental: yes". > > yay & thank you for that! > >> As far as I understand, very few people run Lintian at the >> experimental level, which means these tags are still ran, but not >> really shown to users (and thus waste CPU cycles). > > this does not compute however, or is it really the case that lintian checks > for experiemental issues *always* while only showing them if asked? If so, > I'd think the obvious fix would be to only run them if asked to?
+1 >> === Tags I'm planning to remove === >> >> * update-debian-copyright >> - last updated: 2022-12 >> - 22,597 entries in UDD >> - This tag was highly controversial when it was implemented and I don't see >> its usefulness. > > :) I'd move it to pedantic. but to be properly pedantic, isnt it the case that not many changes in debian/rules are copyrightable? (eg, if i download a pakage on 31 Dec and rebuild it for stable on 1 Jan, will i get this tag because i changed debian/changelog to refer to stable not unstable?)
