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Re: packages with really old standards version



On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:16:14PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:39:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Currently, aiui, lintian uses E: for problems that it's sure are mistakes,
> > and W: for problems that it's only guessing are mistakes. I think that
> > division is still useful.
> >
> 
> no, it tries to do this based on 2.x level MUST/SHOULD and the authors beliefs
> of severity.  Has nothing to do with the sureness of the test.

When did this change, then?  Christian and I designed it the way Anthony
described it.

Richard Braakman



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