Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements
On Oct 22 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> > I also think that style issues should not be a part of even
> > Pedantic checks. If a package is using a different, and arguably
> > better style, then lintian should keep its nose out.
>
> If there's a better style I guess nobody would object to consider recommend
> it or at least make sure lintian doesn't complain about it.
Couldn't we have a category of warning/checks that is labelled "stylistic"?
That way, all odd-ball stylistic changes could be separated from
pedantic and enabled with an even wider range of things (like the
trailing-whitespace-at-eol issue, files that don't end with newline
etc).
I hope that you get the idea.
Regards, Rogério.
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