Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Russ Allbery:
>> Thanks to this new Lintian tag, the current situation is that packages
>> won't pass NEW without a SysV init script (unless a FTP-masters ignore
>> this specific tag despite its severity).
> I haven't worked on Lintian in several years, so perhaps my information is
> stale, but at least previously ftp-master rejects were not based on
> severity, but rather on a hard-coded list of tags maintained by
> ftp-master.

For reference, Russ is correct.  For the people curious about the
concrete tags, please see [1].

Thanks,
~Niels

[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/#lintianrejects