Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Russ wrote:
>
>Accordingly, I'm going to modify lintian to print out only one line per
>run showing the totals of the overrides for the entire run, on the grounds
>that for more details, well, that's what --show-overrides is for.  I think
>this should make both the "want this" and the "want this but it's noisy"
>folks happy.
>
>For those who really don't want to see this line at all, I'll add a -q
>option to lintian that suppresses this line (and anything else like this
>that comes up later, if we have anything).
>
>Does that sound consistent with the sentiments on the thread to everyone?

That sounds entirely fair, yes. Thanks! :-)

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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