Bug#909319: Show unnecessary overrides
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:
> Would there be any objection to upgrading it to a warning (not an error,
> just a warning)?
I vaguely recall us considering doing that, but the concern was that
overrides are a mechanism to keep people using Lintian who are pretty
sensitive to unnecessary tags. So giving people a way to just make the
tag go away and not bother them about it felt a touch inconsistent with
making the unused-override tag a warning, particularly since there were
(are?) a few Lintian tags that can come and go with different versions of
the package or builds on different architectures.
Lintian in general uses warning as the level of "we really think every
packager should know about this stuff even if you don't really like
linters or Lintian in particular," and info as the level of "okay, you
actually care about Lintian, so we're going to show you all the things we
think are reasonably fixable."
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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