2014-04-26 02:30 Charles Plessy:
Le Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 03:48:51PM +0200, Bas Wijnen a écrit :Ignoring a bug because you set your priorities is understandable and (in some cases) good. Adding an override is not.There are also benefits from using an override: - It shows that the message has been received by the maintainer, not just skipped, missed or ignored. - It gives an opportunity to write down why he decided to not take further action.
Agree, that's why we did it in the package that sparked this complaint: #it is removed and symlinked when building sdlgfx source: source-is-missing Docs/html/jquery.js
Overrides are a central place in which Lintian maintainers and other developers doing distribution-wide developments and quality controls can try to unerstand why a tag tends to be ignored by a large number of package maintainers. For example, I am very tempted to start to override hyphen-used-as-minus-sign tags with a justification such as “Never going to work; will not spend my time on this; others may do as they wish”.
Also agree with both. -- Manuel