Bug#995492: lintian: Broken --fails-on=none as default never got reverted
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Hi Guillem,
Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Can you please elaborate what exactly is the bug? You refer to
> > something being problematic without explaining what actually is
> > problematic.
>
> lintian used to exit with a non-zero value when it emitted at least
> one error tag. This was changed, for some reason, and then it stopped
> doing that, instead requiring users to specify --fail-on=error. This
> was supposedly reverted, but the patch that got applied that fixed
> this at the time of submission did not apply at the time it got
> committed due to refactoring, and it was ineffective. As such the
> --help output now is misleading, mentioning that the default --fail-on
> is "error" when it is not.
Thanks for that summary, it helped a lot. I'll have a look.
> I'd have to re-dig all this. I might just try to provide a patch, I
> think should probably be a one-liner.
A patch of course would be nice, but I won't mind if you don't provide
one.
Regards, Axel
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