Bug#884499: lintian: Pedantic check for packages not using debhelper or CDBS
Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> writes:
> Y'know, I think we could make it even more effective if we renamed --
> pedantic at the same time. This would have the benefits of a)
> highlighting the change of semantics and b) we could perhaps choose a
> name that does not imply it is "just" another level of pickiness…
> Almost to the point of "lintian --give-me-possible-things-to-consider"
Yeah, I was cringing over the break in backward-compatibility in my
original proposal, so I think something like this plus a deprecation
warning on --pedantic while making it do nothing would be friendlier.
lintian --suggestions, maybe?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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