Bug#883772: lintian: please don't map implementation language to sections

[David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>]

Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> writes:

> Hey David!
>
>> the programming-language sections are a mess
>
> Whilst I don't necessarily disagree, I'm not sure what the next steps
> for Lintian are here.
>
> Putting it another way, I see you linked #802488 but until that gets
> some kind of resolution (or some change to Policy), what is there for
> us to do..?

Let me turn that question around. In the absence of clear policy [1] of what
belongs in the programming language sections, why should lintian
recommend adding things to them? At best it's busywork for maintainers
and ftp-masters, and at worst it's making things worse for our users [2].

In case you consider the previous not constructive ;), what about
lowering the severity to "pedantic"?

[1]: In either the ftp-master reject-faq sense, or the debian policy
     sense
[2]: Assuming some users care about sections as a way to find packages.