Bug#743694: lintian: Downgrade most of privacy-breach* tags from severity: error to pedantic

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 02:41:20PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> I'm not sure why this x-post over a dozen addresses, but if you wish so...
> 
> Am Freitag, dem 10.09.2021 um 13:56 +0200 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:05:32AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > The severity chosen for these tags/checks is not justified by any of our
> > > > policies, neither the Debian policy, not the best packaging practises nor
> > > > any legal reason!
> > > > 
> > > > There is no technical nor social justification for this severity.
> > > > 
> > > > making our package compliant to this new privacy-policy doesn't add
> > > > any value to our users.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Thanks for taking this stance. Phoning home without the user consent has
> > always been treated as a RC bug.
> 
> Please provide examples.
> 
> > Lintian errors do not by themselves create more work to package
> > maintainers since they can be ignored,
> 
> a) This is untrue. To put packages through NEW they have to be lintian clean.

Is it actually the case ?  This is not my experience.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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