Package: lintian Version: 2.5.106 Hi,
according to the bugreport https://bugs.debian.org/829100 this tag was primarily meant to catch too high xz compression settings. Also the lintian long description seems to be targetted towards that case. But this tag is also emitted on the rather conservative "-Zgzip" option which is not that uncommon if you want to keep a package being able to be installed on Debian Wheezy ELTS or Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (both are still supported to some degree and have dpkg 1.16.x. And at least dpkg in Wheezy has no xz support). So IMHO this tag should not be emitted with legacy compression formats like gzip or bzip2 (at least not with those which were default in the past), just with too high (but not too low) xz compression settings or more exotic (never having been default, like IIRC lzma) compression formats. I though see that explicitly using legacy compression formats (especially bzip2 comes to my mind) may no more be supported in dpkg in some future release, so it might be good to warn about that, too. But that's by far less severe that too heavy xz compression settings. So maybe this should be split up into two tags: * too exotic/strong settings (warning level; current long desc.) * conservative, maybe not future-proof settings which once were default (pedantic level; new long desc.) -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-6 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.1 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-7 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.1 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.74+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.4-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-7 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.31.1-6 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1 -- no debconf information
