Hi lintian maintainers,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2022-04-13):
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (2021-08-12):
> > On Tue 27 Jul 2021 at 04:08AM +02, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> >
> > > Whatever happens on the debian-policy front (if anything), I'd prefer if
> > > lintian would stop emitting those errors on its own. It doesn't have to
> > > follow the letter of Policy, does it?
> >
> > No, it doesn't. While the Lintian maintainers could decide to change
> > that, it's not been how the project has viewed Lintian in the past.
>
> Thanks Sean for the confirmation.
>
> Lintian maintainers, can we please drop this? It's annoying and
> distracting to see those errors/warnings all the time when working on
> the installer.
Can we please finally drop those checks? You'll find above the green
light from Sean regarding lintian's possibly moving ahead of changes in
Policy; since December, 5.6.11 even ends with:
udebs and source packages that only produce udebs do not use
Standards-Version.
lintian's insistance on this topic led to wrong changes getting
committed to dozens of repositories… :(
Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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