Re: Lintian reports P: no-upstream-changelog even though its intended in Ubuntu

[Scott Kitterman]

"Philipp Kern" <pkern at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>Bilal,
>
>am Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 07:09:55PM +0300 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
>> On 01/16/2011 06:52 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> > Pedantic mode is not on by default, though, is it? If it's an
>issue,
>> --pedantic isn't enabled by default in lintian, but most people have
>it
>> set to DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS and its a recommended practice to pass it
>> whenever lintian is called.
>
>seems to me that those recommendations should be changed then.  The
>description of the option should serve as enough of a discouragement to
>obey it all the time:
>
>--pedantic
>       Display pedantic ("P:") tags as well.  They are normally
>       suppressed.
>
>       Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and include
>       checks for particular Debian packaging styles and checks that
>       many people disagree with.  Expect false positives and Lintian
>       tags that you don't consider useful if you use this option.
>       Adding overrides for pedantic tags is probably not worth the
>       effort.

I'm pretty sure that "most" either don't have this set by default or if they do, they know how much weight to give a pedantic tag.

Scott K