Re: Namespaces for Lintian Tags
On 21.11.19 10:55, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> 1. Shortens tag names.
> I do not see how that is a good thing.
>
> "debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding" is a sentence, which
> inherently makes it extremely human-readable. For a tool that is
> primarily meant to validate the output of a human, this is an immensely
> useful feature.
to be honest, i already find myself resorting to lintian-info for an
explanation of what these supposedly "extremely human-readable
sentences" actually mean (and what these meanings imply) far too often.
so i probably would be just as happy with new, more terse but namespaced
tags.
>> 3. Frees up name space (good tags are rare).
i guess this is the problem, and everything that helps with it has my +1.
just my 1¢.
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