Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> writes: > Y'know, I think we could make it even more effective if we renamed -- > pedantic at the same time. This would have the benefits of a) > highlighting the change of semantics and b) we could perhaps choose a > name that does not imply it is "just" another level of pickiness… > Almost to the point of "lintian --give-me-possible-things-to-consider"
Yeah, I was cringing over the break in backward-compatibility in my original proposal, so I think something like this plus a deprecation warning on --pedantic while making it do nothing would be friendlier. lintian --suggestions, maybe? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
