Re: two more tags
Jordà Polo <jorda@ettin.org> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:26:32PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> Attached are two mbox files each adding one of the following tags/checks:
>>
>> Tag: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
>> Type: warning
>> Severity: normal
>> Certainty: certain
This is a misuse of Certainty, I think. "certain" means that Lintian is
absolutely convinced there is a bug here. That's obviously not the case
for a tag whose name even contains "probably." :)
Lintian is of course certain that the description only has one or two
lines, but that's not what Certainty means.
Some of your other recent patches have had similar somewhat-inflated
certainties.
>> Info: The extended description (the lines after the first line of the
>> "Description:" field) is consists on just one or two lines, which are
>> probably
>> too few.
>
> Isn't "normal" too severe for this tag? I think minor or wishlist would
> be more appropriate.
Yeah, I think Type: wishlist, Certainty: possible is about right, although
I could be talked into minor.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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