On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 02:30:00PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> > :) I'd move it to pedantic.
> It's already pedantic ("Experimental: yes" is another thing altogether).
ah, i thought your mail was only about experimental tags...
> > > * duplicate-files
> > why? I think this is exactly in scope.
>
> Again, I think this is busy work and not really important, at least not with
> the price of storage having dramatically gone down since 2010.
to me, having lintian detect duplicate files is useful, because if
that happens to a package which didnt have that before, it's usually
a sign of a newly introduced problem.
it's never about busy work or storage prices...
> > Thank you very much for your work on lintian! Please do take my comments as
> > comments
> > or opinions, but not demands or some such.
> Thanks for the feedback, it's useful!
thanks, i'm glad i could support your work a tiny bit! :)
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