Bug#743694: lintian: Downgrade most of privacy-breach* tags from severity: error to pedantic
Control: severity -1 normal
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 6:21 AM Daniel Leidert <dleidert@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I would doubt our FTP masters if they accept packages with
> lintian errors
Actually, they do! The FTP Masters publish the list of tags they do
not accept. [1] The privacy tags are not on it. Lintian offers a
command line option ('--ftp-master-rejects') to check prospective
uploads against the list. For convenience, we also dedicated a page to
it on our website. [2]
When this bug was filed over seven years ago, the potential rejection
of uploads supported an elevated severity. The cited reason holds no
longer. Somewhat sadly, the privacy topic also does not resonate with
contributors. [3][4] As another point of evidence Bug#765503—filed
half a year later and then merged into this report—reached us with a
more appropriate 'normal' severity. [5]
In consideration of the changed circumstances, the present report is
likewise downgraded to 'normal'.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/static/lintian.tags
[2] https://lintian.debian.org/autoreject
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2021/09/msg00001.html
[4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2021/09/msg00005.html
[5] https://bugs.debian.org/765503
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