Package: lintian Version: 2.5.39 Severity: wishlist Hi,
In the thread https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/12/msg00383.html, and specifically in https://lists.debian.org/20151228134852.ga17...@xanadu.blop.info there was a discussion about adding several pedantic warnings for: qa-comaint_but_no_vcs.txt qa-format_10.txt (3153 packages) (probably below than pedantic) qa-helper_classic_debhelper.txt (3647 packages) (probably below than pedantic) qa-helper_not_debhelper.txt (144 packages) qa-patch_dpatch.txt (170 packages) qa-patch_modified-files-outside-debian.txt (1156 packages) qa-patch_more_than_one.txt (201 packages) qa-patch_other.txt (51 packages) qa-patch_quilt.txt (445 packages) qa-patch_simple-patchsys.txt (129 packages) qa-vcs_but_not_git_or_svn.txt (290 packages) (probably below than pedantic) qa-vcs_more_than_one_declared_vcs.txt (1 package) I'm not copying/summaryzing the discussion as it's still ongoing on -devel@. - Lucas -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (400, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.25.90.20151209-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.60-1 ii file 1:5.25-2 ii gettext 0.19.6-1 ii hardening-includes 2.8+nmu2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b4 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.55-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.3 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.198-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.69-1 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-6 ii t1utils 1.38-4 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.3 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1 ii perl 5.20.2-6 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.3 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 ii libyaml-perl 1.15-1 -- no debconf information