Bug#935706: lintian: Make tag certainty a programmatic assessment

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

Hi Felix,

> > Controversial opinion — the "certainty" of tags is of no actionable
> > benefit to either the users of Lintian or its developers and should
> > be removed.
> 
> Actually, I agree one hundred percent. I will introduce a new
> field---probably called Relevance, Urgency, Significance, Importance,
> Import, or simply Weight---to gradually replace the current mechanism.

My concerns around the "certainty" field revolve around it being
subjective and that, as outlined in my previous email, it makes ~zero
difference to a maintainer's workflow. As a result, all discussions
whether a particular "certainty" value is right or not is, at best, a
distraction from Lintian's primary job.

Therefore I don't understand how introducing any new subjective tag,
whatever its name, is the way forward here.


Regards,

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