On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 04:58:02PM -0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi, > > Whilst I think of it, are there any changes to Lintian that folks > here might consider particularly useful when doing LTS development?
To which lintian? Running stretch lintian tends to give more useful information for packages in stretch than running unstable lintian. > I've already implemented some changes to not emit some specific > warnings when doing security updates, particularly to do with version > numbering. The same problems exist with (old)stable-pu updates, and lintian knowing about differing versioning rules when uploading to anything other than unstable or experimental would be useful. > This is on the basis that if I automatically ignore some of > them, I might be inadvertently 'training' myself to ignore other, > more serious, ones. > > However, I'm sure there is more low-hanging fruit that might prevent > potential regressions. Thoughts welcome. A suppressions list in debian-lts git to be used with --suppress-tags-from-file would be useful. > Regards, cu Adrian