On 16/02/26 1:55 am, John Scott wrote: > Nilesh Patra wrote: >> While this is technically correct, is there a reason that you do not wish to >> use "%"? > and in that regard Lintian's exceptionally harsh treatment of respectable > syntax which is more interoperable feels like ossification (see my next > answer to your other remark): tying my hands and barring me from using my > creativity to try something neat. >
I've raised a merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/664 > ... > >> I ran a search [1] and I don't see even a single package in the archive that >> uses .DEFAULT rule. > That's because, as I had happen to me, the fatal Lintian error is so serious > that it results in an automatic and non-overridable FTP Master rejection: > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/data/archive/auto-rejection.yaml#L76 That is no longer true. FTP master machine has stopped running lintian on sourceful uploads.
