Adam D. Barratt: > On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 12:43 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Dear Adam, >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 05:39:52AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >>> The tag description explicitly indicates that this is expected in the >>> situation you describe. >> >> I know. I was under the impression, though, that all false positives >> are considered Lintian bugs. > > It's a situation that Lintian can't reasonably address, as it doesn't > know what files are in the package that you depend on. > > The tag's intentionally marked as Experimental; I'm not sure whether the > current recommendation for such tags is to override or simply ignore > them. > > Regards, > > Adam >
From my PoV: Lets retire the tag. It has a lot of false-positives due to design restrictions of lintian and the average user do not understand this (this bug being case in point, but far from the only one). Piuparts have a better possibility of testing this reliably and without the issues Lintian have. Thanks, ~Niels
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