Hi, On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 1:23 PM Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: > > Unfortunately this is only a warning in lintian, which might explain > why so many packages are still affected.
After a reasonably broad and balanced discussion on Libera#debian-devel, those targets are now required. [1] The Archive team still runs an older Lintian version (and may for a while) so there should be plenty of time for uploads without auto-rejection. > in that case let's wait At the time of writing, 264 sources were still affected [2] which was down from 421 in November. It worked out more or less to the monthly decline of 85 sources originally predicted by N. Thykier in 2013. [3] Lintian's tag description was amended with the simplest possible fix, which has two-lines. [4] They are reasonable addition to sources that do not receive a lot of attention. > file these bugs with severity "important" and then raise the severity a > month later The bugs were already serious, and therefore release-critical, when I found them. Thank you, everyone, for making the best operating system the world has ever seen. Let's keep it together! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/23f836f91c03b78df76743fc002a105403a5bc14 [2] Scroll down, https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-missing-recommended-target [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657390#45 [4] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-missing-required-target