Bug#943525: lintian: Create private name spaces for tags

2019-11-20 Thread Chris Lamb
Felix Lechner wrote: > (2) How can we mitigate potential breakage for custom profiles > such as FTP Master and pkg-perl-tools, as well as for downstream users > in Debian derivatives? FTP master (rather, the "prime" dak instance) can be changed with so little delay that we shouldn't worry

Bug#943525: lintian: Create private name spaces for tags

2019-10-25 Thread Felix Lechner
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Hi, Tags currently reside in a global name space, which has many drawbacks. Based on my difficulties of separating reused tags in the 'files' family of checks, the time is right to implement private name spaces. Then two checks can share the same tag name