Bug#865882: lintian: Why is debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog a wishlist?

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 18:02:00 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Guillem Jover:
> > Ah, I think it would be nice to explain something along these lines
> > in the tag. I was rather confused by why the Makefile fragment was
> > recommended over a simple already correct call.
> > 
> > I'm also aware of few people who have a problem with the fragment as
> > an interface. So having lintian emit tags over those and stating that
> > they should be switched to the fragment might annoy people.
> 
> Even with all the optimizations we have made in Debian (well, mostly
> you), the "simple correct call" would still cause #793404 to a much
> higher degree than the Makefile fragment that uses careful lazy
> evaluation, wouldn't it?

Ah very good point, certainly! :) Ok, then if this is also reflected
in the tag description, I'm fine, and if people are annoyed they can
just override it or something.

Thanks,
Guillem