Bug#959696: debian-rules-uses-as-needed-linker-flag and backports
Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> IMHO, this is typical example of a tag that shouldn't have existed until
> bullseye was stable.
[…]
> Instead, I can see how many man-minutes and precious brain cycles were
> lost in bugs like this, since you are not the first person to raise this
> question.
It was sad to read that you do not consider that Lintian itself could
be updated to prevent all of these wasted brain cycles on a question
that you have seen raised multiple times.
Once a tag has been added we can always refine, replace or remove it
and the maintainers of Lintian have done so on a number of occasions
once they were made aware of it. I am not personally emotionally
invested in any tag's existence, particularly if it can be shown to be
harmful in a practical sense and does not further the wider goals of
the Project.
This is even more of an unfortunate stance to take given that a simple
one-line improvement (such as to not emit this new tag in the case of
backporting) would appear to be sufficient.
It is regrettable that so many Debian Developers hold such pessimistic
and fatalistic views regarding change in our project. Our collective
sense of fulfilment and enjoyment would no doubt improve if we were to
take small steps in reframing how we view these matters of this nature.
Regards,
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