On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:00:43 +0100 Chris Lamb wrote: > Nobody is doubting the value here, one just has to square that with > the idea that Lintian being too pedantic, noisy or making the wrong > priority choices is bad for effectiveness of tool in its entirity. :) There are only 50 packages affected by this tag, is it really that big of a problem for it to be at warning level? https://lintian.debian.org/tags/appstream-metadata-missing-modalias-provide.html Downgrading it to info level means that almost no-one will know about it, so you might as well just delete the tag instead. Looking at the package list there are only a few packages where the tag might not apply (like zfsutils-linux) and some of the overrides are definitely bogus. The package that Scott maintains that is affected by this tag (libnitrokey-common) contains udev rules for a specific set of USB devices, so it or another package (like nitrokey-app) definitely needs to have the modalias metadata declared so that users can easily find software for the Nitrokey and other devices when they plug them in. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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