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

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Chris,

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 5:57 PM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Therefore I don't understand how introducing any new subjective tag,
> whatever its name, is the way forward here.

The new field is not subjective. The alert level is not part of the
tag declarations. The new field, called Visibility, now determines the
alert level directly. It has a value of 'error', 'warning', 'info',
'pedantic', or 'classification'.

Here is a merge request that implements the proposal. Please let me
know if you have any objections.

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/297

For details, please have a look at the commit messages.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner