Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > Would there be any objection to upgrading it to a warning (not an error, > just a warning)?
I vaguely recall us considering doing that, but the concern was that overrides are a mechanism to keep people using Lintian who are pretty sensitive to unnecessary tags. So giving people a way to just make the tag go away and not bother them about it felt a touch inconsistent with making the unused-override tag a warning, particularly since there were (are?) a few Lintian tags that can come and go with different versions of the package or builds on different architectures. Lintian in general uses warning as the level of "we really think every packager should know about this stuff even if you don't really like linters or Lintian in particular," and info as the level of "okay, you actually care about Lintian, so we're going to show you all the things we think are reasonably fixable." -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
