Control: retitle -1 Please count "unnecessary overrides" in summary line
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:12:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > > > While I do think unused-override makes sense as a warning, here's an > > alternative that would have worked for the issue I ran into: > > > Could Lintian's summary line mention unused overrides? > > > The line that says: > > > N: 1 tag overridden (1 error) > > > could say: > > > N: 1 tag overridden (1 error); 1 unnecessary override > > > That would have called attention to the issue, without necessarily > > emitting an actual warning. > > > Does that seem reasonable? > > That seems reasonable to me, although I'm also curious why you don't want > to run Lintian with info enabled if you care about this sort of thing. I probably should. But at the same time, *any* time I have to configure a tool to use something other than the defaults, I try to figure out if there's a better default first. :)
