On 2022-12-05 03 h 20, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Hi, As there has been discussions about removing tags that are no longer emitted, I wanted to point that it might make sense to keep those tags for at least three use cases: 1) to check old source packages that were removed from Debian, before they are reintroduced in Debian 2) to check unofficial packages 3) to check old packages while tracking history, as in https://trends.debian.net Regarding trends.debian.net, I use the following tags: debian-build-system debhelper-compat-level source-format patch-system direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system vcs-fields-use-more-than-one-vcs vcs vcs-uri no-dep5-copyright missing-tests-control debian-rules-missing-required-target rules-do-not-require-root silent-on-rules-requiring-root rules-require-root-explicitly rules-silently-require-root package-is-co-maintained package-is-team-maintained package-is-maintained-by-individual Lucas
At least on my end, Russ's last email convinced me working on the current pain points wrt tags that seem to emit a lot of false positives might be a better idea than removing "old" tags.
I might propose to remove some (especially targeted at the python ecosystem) if I happen to find they don't serve a purpose anymore and it helps clean code I'm working on, but nothing systematic.
I feel discussions like the current one on the removal of the 'very-long-line-length-in-source-file' tag [1] are beneficial and will help us make compromises and move forward though. If I happen to propose a change that would remove a tag you care about, I would highly welcome feedback.
Cheers, [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/430 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ pollo@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄
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