Hi Russ, On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 9:55 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > I'm not active and don't want to second-guess how > you're handling things.
Thank you for writing that. I have likewise been reluctant to comment on the good work of past maintainers. > But I guess I'll say here that I think the point > of a linter is externalized good taste. It's a codification of good > judgment calls about the way to construct a package. I actually exercise relatively little judgment, at least by Debian standards. On the contrary, I try to accommodate every bug filer, but it is hard. People have so many expectations and styles. And often, my solutions are not appreciated. > I should have, and probably the answer is that I didn't read it in any > detail. It's never too late. I am happy to change the check, or to drop it entirely, if you can figure out the original problem. It may involve tools with which I am unfamiliar. > That said, I think the way I would have interpreted that bug would have > been to warn about symlinks inside /usr/lib to outside of /usr/lib. That seems to be the consensus between Sergei, Chris and myself. It's also what the check does now. > looking at it now, I'm not sure what problem that would cause and > therefore what purpose would be served by warning about it. I am not sure, either. Perhaps a future bug report will tell. > In general, I wouldn't assume that all the old bugs are valid or > interesting. After some reflection, I found that the most defensible way to close feature requests is to implement them. On a personal note, thanks for your book reviews. I serve as a library commissioner in a town near you, and enjoyed reading them. Kind regards Felix Lechner