Hi Russ & Scott, > I'm not sure how one could possibly be more clear. If one's definition of > lintian-clean includes --pedantic, one's definition of lintian-clean is, > well, wrong.
There is no doubt that you are absolutely right in a technical sense and maintainers should not be using --pedantic in this way. However, my experience with being an author of a handful of static analysis tools is that people have a slight tendency to delegate thinking to the computer's output. The addition of an objective target (ie. zero output) only encourages our post-lapsarian brains to make poor, err, compromises. Do correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the angle Scott was pushing. :) How could we make --pedantic more useful/obvious/something? Ironically, if it were less useful in a strict sense — for example, if we moved some P: tags to I: — it would get less incorrect usage. :p Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-