Bug#953554: Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Chris Lamb writes ("Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]"):
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I have no problem with this being a lintian warning.  In this bug I am
> > requesting this "error" to be returned to its previous status as a
> > warning.
> 
> It was not previously clear to me that this was the case.
> 
> > I have indeed used an override.  But I am worried.  I perceive this as
> > part of a campaign to abolish one of my workflows.
> 
> … from the Lintian maintainers' point of view I am absolutely
> confident that this is not the case.

Thanks very much for that clarification.  It is very reassuring.

>   If you believe there is such a
> campaign, I gently request that you continue this sub-conversation
> outside of this Lintian bug.

Of course.

> If it helps, IIRC the version parsing was refactored by Felix in
> recent past to fix or otherwise better support some other version
> parsing issues and I highly suspect this got flipped in the process.

I see.

> I would very much encourage you to not read too much into this, if
> anything. See #935706 for my wider thoughts on the social problems
> that appear to stem from our "certainty" field, and I suspect similar
> can be said between the often-inprecise relationship between errors/
> warnings and Debian bug severities.

Interesting.

I hope that whatever occurs more widely, this particular message can
be downgraded appropriately so that by default it is an warning rather
than an error.  That's all I'm asking for in this bug.

Also it would be good to separate it out from entirely the "version
number is mangled" tag.  Can we perhaps go back to
   hyphen-in-native-debian-changelog-version
which some of the affected packages presumably already have overrides
for ?

Ian.

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