Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

tags 898136 + pending thanks Thanks all; removed in Git, pending upload: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/fd56e1fc5f8bc4a43c9adfe6ab5958b6a762c042 checks/fields.desc | 10 -- checks/fields.pm | 6 -- debian/changelog | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 3

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 19:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I just now checked, and the packages currently diagnosed with this >> tag [1] are 100% false positives, which makes me wonder if this tag >> should just be deleted. > I haven't confirmed this, but if

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 19:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I looked at the original bug report from Paul Wise (cc'd) (#892144), and > the motivation was unclear to me. Were there packages in the archive that > depended on only one MTA and weren't MTA add-ons or

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

tags 898136 + moreinfo thanks Hi Russ, > I just now checked, and the packages currently diagnosed with this tag [1] > are 100% false positives, which makes me wonder if this tag should just be > deleted. Always possible. Let's let pabs chime in; tagging as moreinfo for now... :) Regards, --

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

Chris Lamb writes: > Just to confirm; it currently it reports for all packages that provide > mail-transport-agent, ie: > citadel-server > courier-mta > dma > esmtp-run > exim4 > exim4-daemon-heavy > exim4-daemon-light > masqmail > msmtp-mta > nullmailer >

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

Hi Scott. > Limiting it to packages that depend on exim4 would address all the false > positives I saw (since I mostly know about postfix stuff). Just to confirm; it currently it reports for all packages that provide mail-transport-agent, ie: citadel-server courier-mta dma esmtp-run

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

On Monday, May 07, 2018 01:35:30 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > Package: lintian > > Version: 2.5.85 > > Severity: normal > > > > Also, please reduce the certainty from certain. It's not. > > > > I'd just noticed

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

Scott Kitterman writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.85 > Severity: normal > Also, please reduce the certainty from certain. It's not. > I'd just noticed depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives. > I mainain approximately 10% of the packages affected by

Bug#898136: lintian: Reduce depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives to pedantic

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.85 Severity: normal Also, please reduce the certainty from certain. It's not. I'd just noticed depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives. I mainain approximately 10% of the packages affected by the check (3 of 33) and in all those cases the check is