On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 22:02 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't think this is a good idea. The reason why Lintian is conservative > about what it reports by default is because we know from past history that > people will not use it if they get too many tags that they think are > pointless or are annoying. I see, understandable. > Maybe a better solution would be to improve the documentation for people > who are uploading packages for sponsorship to provide a suggested > .lintianrc for people who are new to packaging? (But even there, I'm > rather dubious that showing new packagers pedantic tags by default is a > good idea.) maint-guide suggests to use -i -I: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/checkit.en.html#lintians I think there are definitely useful X and P tags, which is why I enable them. Especially things like no-upstream-changelog or source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary are useful to forward upstream -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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