Debian Bug report logs - #898091
lintian: Alter the semantics (etc.) of --pedantic?

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:09:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version lintian/2.5.39

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Subject: Re: lintian: Pedantic check for packages not using debhelper or CDBS
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tags 884499 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

> lintian: Pedantic check for packages not using debhelper or CDBS

I'm in two minds about this. Whilst I would like everyone to use such
things, as it was pointed out recently Lintian tags should always be
actionable.

If one's personal style was not to use debhelper or CDBS then this
would simply be overly-didactic or annoying, leading to folks
ignoring Lintian in the future.

Any thoughts?


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