On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: > On 28/12/15 at 14:24 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> > qa-vcs_but_not_git_or_svn.txt (290 packages) >> > >> > The package is maintained using a VCS, which is not either Git or SVN. >> >> This one is really bellow pedantic... > > I agree. And this could also apply to "still using classic debhelper" > and "package still using 1.0 format that would not really benefit from > any major improvement by moving to 3.0". > > However, as I already argued back in 2013[1], I think that it would be very > useful for lintian to track such things, maybe as a below-than-pedantic > level (in [1], Jakub Wilk suggested a "F" (feature) tag, as in "it's not > a bug, it's a feature").
I like the feature tag... We should add a flag on command line > > If we had that, it means that the work I did could simply be done by > running lintian on snapshot.debian.org, and tracking the popularity of > interesting tags. And that it would be very easy to change the level of > such tags when something moves from "new way to do $thing" to "suggested > ew way to do $thing" to "recommended way to do $thing". > > I think I would even try to implement that in lintian myself if there > was willingness from the lintian maintainers to accept such a change. For me you could implement the feature tag :) Patch welcome.. > Lucas
