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Theo Van Dinter writes:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:27:52AM -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
> > Either way though, I do see the problem -- could someone open a bug at the
> > BZ so we can decide what the "correct" way to do this should be
> > and possibly add support for it to the engine?
> 
> Is this something that we need to solve?  Rules are designed to look for
> things in messages, adding in the ability to say "run but match nothing"
> doesn't seem like a useful feature.  The known solution to the problem is to
> remove the rule.

the problem is:

  'The initial problem:  If I remove a rule for which there's a score
  override, then --lint reports an unmatched score line, and RDJ will
  not load any updates for that system.

  The initial fix:  As discussed (I forget whether here or on the users'
  list), the above "meta rulename 0" structure was adopted to say "this
  rule exists, it always fails to match."'

in other words we need some way to assert "this *was* a valid rule, but no
longer exists, so score lines referring to this no-longer-existent rule
are not a lint failure."

- --j.
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