Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements
Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> writes:
> 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 was actually most of the point of pedantic. Minor possible bugs that
aren't stylistic belong in info instead. That's why both of them are
suppressed by default.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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