On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:30:09PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > After a recent problem with a package with a fairly egregious error that > was overridden, hurting the ability of the sponsor to notice it, I added a > line of output to the default lintian output saying if any package > overrides error or warning tags.
> As I sort of suspected at the time, someone else has now objected to > having this output by default on the grounds that the point of the > override was to shut lintian up and it's easier to verify that lintian > produces no output. > I'd really like to not have to make this decision myself. I'd like to get > opinions and see if a consensus emerges. I personally always run lintian > with -iI --show-overrides, so I'm clearly not the target audience for this > feature one way or the other. Here are the options: > * Show the N: line with a count of overrides per package by default and > provide an option to suppress this output if someone wants. > * Don't show the N: line by default and provide an option to turn it on. > Which should we do? I have to agree that lintian shouldn't output any noise about overrides by default. To my mind this partly defeats the purpose of having an override facility, and I don't think one instance of poor judgement should outweigh the benefit of being able to spare developers from worrying about lintian warnings that we know for certain are false-positives. E.g., this: N: samba_3.0.28-2.dsc overrode 4 warnings N: winbind_3.0.28-2_amd64.deb overrode 3 errors, 2 warnings N: smbfs_3.0.28-2_amd64.deb overrode 2 warnings N: samba-common_3.0.28-2_amd64.deb overrode 1 warning N: samba_3.0.28-2_amd64.deb overrode 1 warning is now half the lintian output for samba, and it's the half that was deliberately overridden before /so that/ the remaining problems would be more visible :) And yes, none of these are overrides to paper over lintian bugs... :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
