Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> writes: > Hey David! > >> the programming-language sections are a mess > > Whilst I don't necessarily disagree, I'm not sure what the next steps > for Lintian are here. > > Putting it another way, I see you linked #802488 but until that gets > some kind of resolution (or some change to Policy), what is there for > us to do..?
Let me turn that question around. In the absence of clear policy [1] of what belongs in the programming language sections, why should lintian recommend adding things to them? At best it's busywork for maintainers and ftp-masters, and at worst it's making things worse for our users [2]. In case you consider the previous not constructive ;), what about lowering the severity to "pedantic"? [1]: In either the ftp-master reject-faq sense, or the debian policy sense [2]: Assuming some users care about sections as a way to find packages.