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

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 08:10:57AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> 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 [1] The tag 'outdated-standards-version' operates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.

Then I would suggest that a new lintian category is designed to catter
for such usage, so that tools might chose not to display such warnings
as they do with 'P: pedantic' currently.

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

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