Bug#457513: N: - lintian too noisy
Sune Vuorela <reportbug@pusling.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.41
> Severity: normal
>
> It seems that someone filed 452804 and it is now fixed. I really
> disagree in that because I don't want to see output from lintian if
> there is nothing interesting.
I should probably raise this on debian-devel, since having it on by
default was explicitly requested. I figured at the time that someone
would object, though.
However....
> When I add a override, I do not want to be bugged with it. This setting
> might be reasonable when there is just 1 binary package - but most of my
> packages produces many binary packages, most got some kind of lintian
> override, so now it is quite some information.
...this is itself a problem. Why do most of your packages have some sort
of lintian override? What tags are you having to override that this would
be true? Very few of my packages need lintian overrides.
I suspect that there are ways that lintian could be improved that would
eliminate the need for at least some of those overrides. This is one of
the things I sort of liked about the proposal. In some cases, lots of
overrides turn up tags that are poorly implemented or just a bad idea.
(For example, I'm seriously considering dropping the multiple-sonames tag,
since packaging multiple libraries in the same library package is often
the right thing to do.)
> The very least thing to do is to add a --dont-show-useless-stuff switch
> - but I would prefer that the N: stuff wasn't on by default.
I'll do this if we keep it on by default. I'd like to figure out what
people want first, though, since I don't want to add the option and then
end up removing it again.
I'll mail debian-devel about this.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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