On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> writes:Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it.This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which currently *barely* makes the W threshold. I think a very good argument could be made that this is actually severity: wishlist, which would downgrade it to an I. I'm copying debian-lint-maint to see what the other Lintian maintainers think.
As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented as a warning and then moved to minor/certain during the transition).
I've no problem with downgrading the severity, although we should make a corresponding change to the dpatch tag at the same time, unless there's some reason it's particularly worse for a dpatch to be missing a description.
Adam