Tracking "below pedantic" stuff in lintian (Was: Packages with /outdated/ packaging style)
On 28/12/15 at 14:24 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> > qa-vcs_but_not_git_or_svn.txt (290 packages)
> >
> > The package is maintained using a VCS, which is not either Git or SVN.
>
> This one is really bellow pedantic...
I agree. And this could also apply to "still using classic debhelper"
and "package still using 1.0 format that would not really benefit from
any major improvement by moving to 3.0".
However, as I already argued back in 2013[1], I think that it would be very
useful for lintian to track such things, maybe as a below-than-pedantic
level (in [1], Jakub Wilk suggested a "F" (feature) tag, as in "it's not
a bug, it's a feature").
If we had that, it means that the work I did could simply be done by
running lintian on snapshot.debian.org, and tracking the popularity of
interesting tags. And that it would be very easy to change the level of
such tags when something moves from "new way to do $thing" to "suggested
ew way to do $thing" to "recommended way to do $thing".
I think I would even try to implement that in lintian myself if there
was willingness from the lintian maintainers to accept such a change.
Lucas
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