Bug#965327: Lower severity of bash-completion-with-hashbang

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

Hi Vincent,

> >> the shebang is harmless and I won't
> >> patch or other upstream about a harmless shebang.
> >
> > As explained in this MR [2], we consider the hashbang an error. The
> > snippets are not meant to be executed. The upstream for
> > 'bash-completion' also does not use them.
> >
> > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/292
>
> Again, I won't maintain a patch for such an "error".

Hmm, I would agree this should not be a "W:" level tag, and could
easily be convinced it should not even be "I:" either given that I
wouldn't patch it out either or bother upstream with it. This might
be another one of my controversial opinions too, but I find modelines
as a solution beyond ugly. :)

> Lintian is a very useful tool, but too many stuff is a warning while
> this is a matter of opinion. I have given up on the "info" level
> since a long time for similar reasons. I would like not to give up on
> the "warning" level.

(It is a shame to read you have given up on "I:" and it would be nice
if Lintian earned back your trust. Now that it has a slightly simpler
system of classification, could you file a wishlist bugs against what
you feel are, or felt were, the worst offenders?)


Best wishes,

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