Bug#906281: lintian: Severity and Certainty of emacsen-common-without-dh-elpa are wrong / false positives despite "Certainty: certain"

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Axel Beckert wrote:

> This lintian tag should be:
>
> a) downgraded from "Severity: normal" level to either "Severity:
>    wishlist" or even "Severity: pedantic", and
>
> b) changed from "Certainty: certain" to "Certainty: wild-guess" as
>    there are clearly multiple and common cases where the switch to
>    dh-elpa is impossible as of now.
>
> Alternatively, the tag should be changed to be only emitted if the
> binary package is named either elpa-*, *-el or *-mode

This sounds the most sensible way forward, ie. fixing most of the false-
positives, rather than just making Lintian very slightly less noisy.

(As an aside, I'm always curious when people put a lot of weight behind
the Certainty that Lintian reports; the various levels have no "real"
meaning and accordingly get very little attention from the Lintian
maintainers.)


Regards,

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