Bug#930679: Please add overridable tag for not using dh sequencer

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 930679 + moreinfo
thanks

Sam Hartman wrote:

> […] we'd like lintian to detect when dh is not used […]

Just in case you or -policy was unaware, please note that Lintian
actually currently warns — albeit at a pedantic level — when a
package uses neither cdbs nor debhelper:

  https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-does-not-use-debhelper-or-cdbs.html

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Anyway, whilst the technical implementation of the requested tag is
trivial, what we would need from you (etc.) at this point is:

  a) Name of this tag (eg. "package-does-not-use-dh")

  b) The "long description" of the tag with a brief rationale,
     references, etc.

  c) The severity (ie. E/W/I/P)

> It would be even better to detect some of the adequate justifications
> automatically like  Haskell packages.

Unless I'm misunderstanding this request, we have no functionality to
"meta warn" when a tag is overridden without an "adequate" or even a
non-verbose justification. This would seem overly error-prone.

As an aside, every tag in Lintian is overridable; the question of
non-overridable tags only concerns uploads and dak where such a subset
of tags operates on an opt-in basis for hopefully-obvious reasons.


Regards,

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