Re: Tracking "below pedantic" stuff in lintian (Was: Packages with /outdated/ packaging style)
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> wrote:
> 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").
I like the feature tag... We should add a flag on command line
>
> 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.
For me you could implement the feature tag :) Patch welcome..
> Lucas
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