Bug#991533: lintian: please forget about required-field Standards-Version for udeb packages

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:57 AM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Is there some new external factor that make any unaddressed lintian
> warnings problematic ?

That may go beyond the scope of the present discussion, but yes:
First, Lintian packaging hints are always viewed as imperfections;
contributors strive to make their packages "Lintian-clean". Second, we
now offer performance measures that will eventually help to improve or
drop tags people find "noisy," i.e. those with a high rate of false
positives. Here is an example for a tag that, being 95% accurate,
works well. [1] The tag 'outdated-standards-version' operates
completely outside of that paradigm. It always is, and forever will
be, noisy.

I see myself as an advocate for the folks who like Lintian but are
annoyed by it. More often than not, they are right.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/spelling-error-in-binary