Bug#964073: lintian: Possible false positives for breakout-link for Lua modules
Hi Russ,
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 9:55 PM Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I'm not active and don't want to second-guess how
> you're handling things.
Thank you for writing that. I have likewise been reluctant to comment
on the good work of past maintainers.
> But I guess I'll say here that I think the point
> of a linter is externalized good taste. It's a codification of good
> judgment calls about the way to construct a package.
I actually exercise relatively little judgment, at least by Debian
standards. On the contrary, I try to accommodate every bug filer, but
it is hard. People have so many expectations and styles. And often, my
solutions are not appreciated.
> I should have, and probably the answer is that I didn't read it in any
> detail.
It's never too late. I am happy to change the check, or to drop it
entirely, if you can figure out the original problem. It may involve
tools with which I am unfamiliar.
> That said, I think the way I would have interpreted that bug would have
> been to warn about symlinks inside /usr/lib to outside of /usr/lib.
That seems to be the consensus between Sergei, Chris and myself. It's
also what the check does now.
> looking at it now, I'm not sure what problem that would cause and
> therefore what purpose would be served by warning about it.
I am not sure, either. Perhaps a future bug report will tell.
> In general, I wouldn't assume that all the old bugs are valid or
> interesting.
After some reflection, I found that the most defensible way to close
feature requests is to implement them.
On a personal note, thanks for your book reviews. I serve as a library
commissioner in a town near you, and enjoyed reading them.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
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