Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable
Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'd like to get some broader input from the developer community on
>> this, since this affects quite a few lintian checks.
> I think the provided information is still valuable at some level (for
> example it could be useful to people backporting to oldstable or
> maintaining derivatives), but it would sound incorrect to report these
> at the "warning" level: perhaps you can report them at a lower level
> and/or permit enabling this class of checks via configuration?
This would be nice, but I probably should have mentioned in my previous
message that lintian's internal architecture makes this rather difficult
for many of these checks. In some cases it wouldn't be too bad to add the
additional check at info level, but in other cases it would require
developing some new infrastructure to run separate info-level checks.
I'm not entirely sure the maintenance burden warrants it, although in the
long run I do want to do tag-filtered reports from lintian so that one can
selectively enable pickier tags.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Reply to: