Bug#663516: lintian: Should we retire old/reundant tags
On 2012-03-11 23:18, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, 2012-03-11, 22:31:
>> I am considering to retire a number of old tags I suspect are now
>> useless.
>>
>> The following tags are no longer emitted by any package in the entire
>> archive and I suspect no packager will trigger them.
>>
> [...]
>> postinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link
>
> I'm not sure about this one.
>
Part of my reason for removing this one is that it (according to its
description) is for cleaning up after a transition around Woody.
>> package-uses-obsolete-file
>
> Oh dear, this one surely is not emitted very often, because otherwise
> somebody would notice how horrible its description is. I think we can
> drop it.
>
> [...]
>
:)
~Niels
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