Bug#797395: [maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home] false positivies

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi Niels,

Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Anyway: I think we should _generally_ improve the situation and not
> > duplicating functionality for a single tag.
> 
> Flip-side: There is no much gain in it for us to have 20 distinct
> "foo-installs-bar" tags when 1 could do.  It is certainly a trade-off
> because we should not make tags "too overloaded" either.  That also
> harms us and lintian users.

I think I wasn't very precise here. I meant that we should avoid
duplicating the code which generates the tag from a data file by
reimplementing the same thing without data files.

> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/nthykier/lintian.git/log/?h=deb822-data-files

I like the 'Default modifiers "/xsm"' in there. That makes multiline
regexp code with proper indentation possible.

		Regards, Axel
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