Hello, On Sat 13 Jul 2019 at 11:10PM +02, Jérémy Lal wrote: > the question > "Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?" > is a good question, and it would be nice to get a general answer, > separately from the technical issue about sysvinit scripts. I think that it is useful to Debian for Lintian to be a bit more opinionated, and a bit less conservative, than Policy is. Especially if you turn on all the tag levels, Lintian pushes a fairly strong set of ideas about what packages should look like. Most everyone will find something they disagree with, but it gets us to think about these things and consider whether they might be good ideas. Over time, tags can get turned down in severity or changes can make their way into the Policy Manual. Of course, if Lintian gets too far "ahead" of Policy then it would be less useful. What I think is useful to us is for it to be just a little bit more pushy than Policy, as indeed it is. -- Sean Whitton
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