Package: lintian Version: 2.5.97 Severity: normal There are actually two issues:
First, lintian should warn for any usage of -Z/-S/-z no matter the values. Manual fiddling with these tends to cause future problems without actual benefits, uses-deprecated-compression-for-data-tarball is another example for such problems. For having any visible effects such changes anyways have to be done globally in the archive, not at a per-package level. Second, debian/source/options also has to be checked. Example: https://sources.debian.org/src/vtk-dicom/0.7.10-1/debian/source/options/