Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For those who really don't want to see this line at all, I'll add a -q >> option to lintian that suppresses this line (and anything else like >> this that comes up later, if we have anything). > How about a config

Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:12:32 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For those who really don't want to see this line at all, I'll add a -q >option to lintian that suppresses this line (and anything else like this >that comes up later, if we have anything). How about a configuration file a

Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Russ wrote: > >Accordingly, I'm going to modify lintian to print out only one line per >run showing the totals of the overrides for the entire run, on the grounds >that for more details, well, that's what --show-overrides is for. I think >this should make both the "want this" and the "want this bu

Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-05 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 11:12 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Interestingly, no one option emerged strongly. People seem to be split > almost evenly three ways: want the messages by default, don't want them by > default, or want them but only one line per run. True, there is no consensus. > > Accord

Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ wrote: >> * 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