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Bug#1099787: lintian: package-installs-apt-preferences should be Pedantic, not Error



to 22.5.2025 klo 18.29 Louis-Philippe Véronneau (pollo@debian.org) kirjoitti:
> I'm very tempted to mark this bug as "wontfix" and close it.
>
> I agree that in a perfect world, this kind of rule would be backed by
> some formal documentation like the Debian Policy.

Which is precisely my pet peeve with too many Lintian tags.

Too many tags marked as Error are not backed by a MUST or MUST NOT
item in Policy.

Likewise for Warning tags that are not backed by a SHOULD or SHOULD
NOT item in Policy.

Martin-Éric


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