Bug#974590: wrong breakout-link warning
On 11/12/20 8:54 PM, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 lintian: Exempt gcc-10 and friends from breakout-link
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
>> It might be a good thing to check a new lintian release against some fixed set
>> of packages, maybe including gcc-10 and gcc-10-cross.
>
> We are working on away for maintainers to request exemptions for
> groups of packages. It has been a long-standing pattern in Lintian but
> will soon be resolved in a better place.
you misunderstand. I'm not asking for exemptions for certain packages, but that
you check for the consequences of a new warning before you upload to unstable.
the ratio of lintian noise and real issues for some packages is high, at least
for gcc-N.
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