Experimental and lowering to pedantic are orthogonal flags. I think both
should be done, as removing --as-needed has very marginal relevance so it
can't possibly be labeled as "warning". But due to what Christian said
(which matches my thoughts) I likewise believe the tag should be hidden for
the
On 2020-05-05 13:58, Chris Lamb wrote:
> I would like to do a Lintian release today, so given that a) I was led
> to believe skipping the tag for backports uploads would be sufficient
> and b) that I would not like to leave the resolution of this bug for
> another release, I would like to make the
Hey Mattia,
> […]
You make a number of fair points and many of them have changed the
colour how I feel about this. For example, you are right to highlight
that if a tag exists even for a day then it can have remarkable
impact. I would still insist that it is regrettable that users
hesitate before
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:58:03PM -, Chris Lamb wrote:
> It was sad to read that you do not consider that Lintian itself could
> be updated to prevent all of these wasted brain cycles on a question
> that you have seen raised multiple times.
I consider that, and I think I tried to contribute
Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> IMHO, this is typical example of a tag that shouldn't have existed until
> bullseye was stable.
[…]
> Instead, I can see how many man-minutes and precious brain cycles were
> lost in bugs like this, since you are not the first person to raise this
> question.
It was sad to
[ not a lintian maintainer ]
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:53:45AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> lintian understandably reports about a no longer required
> -Wl,--as-needed in bullseye. However, unless I'm mistaken, it's still
> needed for building for buster-backports, so removing it has a side
Package: lintian
Version: 2.70.0
Severity: wishlist
lintian understandably reports about a no longer required
-Wl,--as-needed in bullseye. However, unless I'm mistaken, it's still
needed for building for buster-backports, so removing it has a side effect.
The cleanest solution would probably be t
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