On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 09:41:58AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Lintian currently reports many issues as Error or Warning without > referring to specific Policy items. As far as I can tell, the severity > level for any given Lintian tag seemingly is completely arbitrary, > based on the personal preferences of whoever made the commit for any > specific tag.
No, I dont think those levels are completly arbitrary.
> IMHO, During the Forky cycle, an extensive review of Lintian's
> severity levels for every tag ought to be performed, starting with
> those for which a bug report against Lintian has been filed.
yes, with 516 open bug reports lintian maintenance surely needs help.
I'm not convinced a completly arbitrary rant on this list is the best
way to start with that, but YMMV.
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