Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:03:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> There should be no minor-severity bugs that result in lintian errors. >> If there are, that's a bug in Lintian. Please report it. The lowest >> threshold that produces an E tag is severity: important, likelihood: >> possible. > I know this is the current lintian policy on E vs. W, but that this > wasn't the case historically. Is this the case for lintian 1.24? I > believe that's the version in use on ftp-master currently. (It also > appears to be the version that will be shipping with lenny?) It's been the rough goal for a while, although we've become much clearer about it recently. I think 1.24 should generally be okay, although of course bugs have been fixed since then. > And even under the new classification, "possibly important" bugs are > still a far cry from things that should be treated as reasons for > rejects, IMHO. Sure, which is why ftp-master is only going to use a specific list of tags. Joerg came to us and asked for the facility for exactly that reason.... -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
