Bug#962157: marked as pending in lintian

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 02:39:12 +0000, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Control: tag -1 pending

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> Remove command line option --fail-on from the settings in configuration files. (Closes: #962157)
> 
> The configuration file supports a limited number of settings for end
> users. They all relate to the display (and one allows selecting the
> number of jobs).
> 
> The --fail-on command option, on the other hand, is used only in
> automated settings.  No one on the team that implemented it plans to
> use it in a configuration file. It was a mistake to include that
> option among those available in configuration files.
> 
> For automated settings, the --fail-on command-line option can be
> conveniently enabled in a transparent and straightforward manner. It
> should be added by the invocant as '--fail-on error'.
> 
> Users who rely on the exit status are furthermore advised to examine
> their scripts. The exit codes for program errors and the conditions
> selected via --fail-on are now reversed.
> 
> The new option was introduced at the same time to miminize the overall
> inconvenience. Thank you for using Lintian!
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Hmm, well that's unfortunate, :/ as the support for this option in the
config file makes it very convenient to set a global value different
than the default, instead of having to modify all local instances to
use the same value. Please could you restore this support and add a
value to denote «none» or perhaps a --no-fail-on or similar?

(I'd personally have in general more stuff configurable via the config
file rather than less.)

Thanks,
Guillem