Bug#922544: lintian: Mass tag rename to unify naming convention

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 922544 + moreinfo

Hey Guillem,

[Marking as moreinfo as patch/discussion is RFC.]

>   [T] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2015/08/msg00094.html>

Thanks for re-raising this; I was unaware of this previous
discussion.

[…]

> Encoding either the severity/certainty or the possible solution in the
> tag name duplicates the information contained elsewhere and makes them
> awkward to change.

Indeed and hardcoding RFC 2119 language (eg. must/should) can
simply get out of sync with Policy, if it was ever in sync to begin
with.

> I'd request that no more such tag names be added, and ideally the
> current ones be renamed, although the longer they stay the more
> overrides they might accumulate. :/

That's my only concern at this point. I mean, there's probably
countless debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature overrides.

I wonder… Lintian could have a small list of aliases used only for
overrides?


Regards,

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