Hello, Axel Beckert, le mer. 29 juin 2022 15:49:11 +0200, a ecrit: > > I consider these [] not helpful […] no visible advantage. > > The advantage is to clearly mark what is a file with potentially a > line number in the output of lintian so that further processors like > the lintian website can do deep links to the proper code position on > e.g. sources.debian.org or salsa.debian.org. Felix called it "pointed > hints". > > From my point of view, that's quite an advantage.
Yes, I fully agree. The format migration poses problem (I had to patch quite a few lintian files), but it solves a lot other current-and-future problems: we can now just ignore whole sets of warnings for a given file (typically one that is generated by some tool such as doxygen) Samuel