Re: Lintian severity levels
la 27.9.2025 klo 11.31 Niels Thykier (niels@thykier.net) kirjoitti:
>
> 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.
Some tools in Debian use Error as a justification for further action.
Given this, tags that are zealously at the Error priority cause
unnecessary hassles for the maintainer and/or archive admins.
This is similar to people abusing the BTS severity level to mark a
package with an RC bug just as a means to attract more attention to
their pet peve.
> 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.
I am willing to fix the tags I already find problematic. I might find
the time to do more, if there is momentum.
Martin-Éric
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