Hi Manoj, I'm not going to argue with you about this. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:12:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > There is a time and a place where these lintian options are > useful. They certainly have a place, and are recommended for > experienced developers, and critical for helping to improve lintian. > But one needs to know when to use them, and when not to bother. I just think that this is the wrong perspective. lintian usually has good explanations and I find it for novices particularly helpfull to read those. They rediect to Policy, DevRef etc. And the most important part is: not a single lintian complaint has to be fixed because lintian says so. It's just a tool. Bugs have to be fixed and if lintian finds those -- good. And if a new maintainer doesn't understand what a lintian (pedantic, info, warning or whatever severity) issue is about, then it's time to ask. That's what -mentors is about; or at least I always thought so. Hauke
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