Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> writes: >> Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and include >> checks for particular Debian packaging styles, *checks that are >> very frequently wrong*, and checks that many people disagree >> with. Expect false positives and Lintian tags that you don't >> consider useful if you use this option. Adding overrides for >> pedantic tags is probably not worth the effort.
> As the person who pushed and introduced pedantic support I always felt a > bit hesitant regarding the highlighted statement, maybe I should bring > this up on the lintian mailing list and ask Russ for his reasons behind > it (maybe what he wanted to express could be paraphrased). If a check > is wrong I don't think it should belong to the pedantic category, IMHO. Yeah, maybe we should drop that. I think what I was intending is already covered by "checks that many people disagree with." wild-guess certainty doesn't make checks pendantic, only downgrades them to info. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
