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Re: Lintian severity levels



Martin-Éric Racine:
la 27.9.2025 klo 11.48 Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org) kirjoitti:
[...]

Agreed. In fairness, in that particular case, the error is explained
by a requirement due to Apache code change.

Here are two less obvious ones:

[...]

This is a fairly common case for commercial non-free commercial
packages and for local packages deployed across a whole company. The
package includes a sources.list.d file to enable fetching updates, and
it definitely won't pull in a separate company-apt-source package just
to quiet down Lintian.

[...]

There is an obvious need to prefer customized versions over Debian
versions for packages deployed across a whole company.

Martin-Éric


Hi Martin-Éric,

Sounds like you may want to create a Lintian profile that better match the need of your use-case if it is for a package not targeting a Debian upload.

Lintian has support for creating arbitrary rule sets for which hints to be emitted and under what severity via its profile system. Then once you have a valid profile, it is a matter of running `lintian --profile <foo>` to use your defined rule set and get the policy you desire for your use-case, while Debian retains its default under the `debian/main` profile that is Lintian's current default.

Best regards,
Niels

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