I revisited both the Lintian tag and the long description in light of this discussion and some private feedback, and for the next release of Lintian have tentatively made the following changes:
* The tag was previously severity: normal. Lintian tag severities should match bug severities were one to file a bug about the tag, and I think everyone would agree that no one would file a normal severity bug about this at this point. I've changed the severity to wishlist instead, which I think more accurately reflects the current severity of this request. I should have caught that originally; almost all submitted tags for Lintian require some tweaking to the certainty and severity. * I've revised the long description to try to make it come across as less insistent, as several people weren't very happy with the wording. It now says: N: missing-debian-source-format N: N: To allow for possible future changes in the default source format, N: explicitly selecting a source format by creating debian/source/format N: is recommended. N: N: If you don't have a reason to stay with the old format for this N: package, please consider switching to "3.0 (quilt)" (for packages with N: a separate upstream tarball) or to "3.0 (native)" (for Debian native N: packages). N: N: If you wish to keep using the old format, please create that file and N: put "1.0" in it to be explicit about the source package version. If N: you have problems with the 3.0 format, the dpkg maintainers are N: interested in hearing, at debian-d...@lists.debian.org, the N: (technical) reasons why the new formats do not suit you N: N: Refer to the dpkg-source(1) manual page and N: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 for details. N: N: Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain I hope this is a reasonable compromise between the various stances on the new source format. None of this is set in stone, or has gone anywhere other than the Lintian Git repository, and we can definitely change it further based on additional feedback. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbo39b6j....@windlord.stanford.edu