Antoine Le Gonidec:
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 09:41:58AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit :IMHO, in order for Lintian's severity levels to be meaningful in determining a package's fitness for inclusion in the Debian repository, an Error ought to refer to a MUST[NOT] Policy item, while a Warning ought to refer to a SHOULD[NOT] Policy item.I second this suggestion, keeping in mind that in some cases it might be better to update the Policy instead of lintian.
Coming from another angle, what is the problem you are trying to solve by re-calibrating all the severity levels? To me, this declaration smells like a "solution" but I am not sure I understand the "problem" it is supposed to solve.
[...] IMHO, During the Forky cycle, an extensive review of Lintian's severity levels for every tag ought to be performed, starting with those for which a bug report against Lintian has been filed.Assuming that your proposal is seconded by more people, and especially by the current lintian maintainers, would you volunteer to send patches fixing the severity level of tags? Or at least take an active part in preparing these patches? Or don’t you have the right mix of time/motivation/skill for that, and should it be seen more as a suggestion for the lintian maintainers themselves?
Reminder here, Debian is a do-cracy. If you make this kind of declaration, you have to be ready to put your volunteer time where your mouth is. Having a lot of people on debian-devel saying something is a good idea is worthless if no one steps up to actually do it.
And I am definitely **not** volunteering for this even if I would be convinced it was a good idea.
Best regards, Niels
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