la 27.9.2025 klo 11.31 Niels Thykier ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > Antoine Le Gonidec: > > Le Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 09:41:58AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > >> IMHO, in order for Lintian's severity levels to be meaningful in > >> determining a package's fitness for inclusion in the Debian > >> repository, an Error ought to refer to a MUST[NOT] Policy item, while > >> a Warning ought to refer to a SHOULD[NOT] Policy item. > > > > I second this suggestion, keeping in mind that in some cases it might be > > better to update the Policy instead of lintian. > > > > Coming from another angle, what is the problem you are trying to solve > by re-calibrating all the severity levels? To me, this declaration > smells like a "solution" but I am not sure I understand the "problem" it > is supposed to solve.
Some tools in Debian use Error as a justification for further action. Given this, tags that are zealously at the Error priority cause unnecessary hassles for the maintainer and/or archive admins. This is similar to people abusing the BTS severity level to mark a package with an RC bug just as a means to attract more attention to their pet peve. > Reminder here, Debian is a do-cracy. If you make this kind of > declaration, you have to be ready to put your volunteer time where your > mouth is. Having a lot of people on debian-devel saying something is a > good idea is worthless if no one steps up to actually do it. I am willing to fix the tags I already find problematic. I might find the time to do more, if there is momentum. Martin-Éric
