Bug#962448: mailing-list-obsolete-in-debian-infrastructure: Please ignore the Debian Java Maintainers address

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

tags 962448 + moreinfo
tags 962448 - pending
thanks

Hi,

> mailing-list-obsolete-in-debian-infrastructure Debian Java
> Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>
> The address is valid and the team doesn't plan to migrate 1000+ packages
> to a different address.

You appear to be running Lintian configured to show "Experimental:
yes" tags. This is not recommended and you are likely seeing many
other completely bogus or otherwise unactionable tags.

Experimental tags are mostly a development/debugging aid — a way to
have tags implemented but hidden from users for the time being or
just to see how many packages would be affected. A playground or
zoo of sorts, and not something developers should care about or even
see when preparing packages.

Putting it another way, I agree about not migrating so many packages,
but that is exactly why it's an experimental tag. Indeed, there is
nothing special about the Java team's packages here when you look at
it this way; I am sure there are other teams this would apply to.

I would therefore suggest that the fix here is actually that you do
not run Lintian in "experimental" mode. If there are tags in that mode
that you find useful, do let us know as this is a sign that they
should be promoted.. rather than maintain a specific "allow" list.

(Felix, please consider reverting your change to 12cd485d until we
have consensus here.)


Regards,

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