On Wednesday, May 21, 2025 12:08:09 PM Mountain Standard Time Ahmad Khalifa
Does mentors "debexpo" apply different severity to the lintian tags?
I'm running lintian locally on testing, which has the same lintian
version as unstable, but I see 'P' or 'X' locally, then get 'Error' and
'Info' on mentors.d.n
This one: spelling-error-in-binary is Pedantic in the logs, in
lintian-explain-tags and even here:
- https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/spelling-error-in-binary
- https://lintian.debian.org/tags/spelling-error-in-binary.html
but mentors shows Info
This one: source-is-missing is Experimental, but shows as Error on mentors.
Am I missing a config somewhere or is mentors doing this for a reason?
The mismatch is a bit annoying. Have to do a second upload and push it
to salsa too.
PS, I use "-EI --pedantic --profile debian" all the time.
Mentors uses an old version of lintian. I am not sure which version it is,
but in some cases it has different tags and in others it has different
severities or different checks for the same tag.
This is not a unique problem with Mentors. A lot of Debian infrastructure
runs lintian from either stable or oldstable, which causes consternation from
time to time.