From: nilesh@iki.fi 
  
 Hi Martin-€€ric, all, 
  
 I am not an official lintian maintainer, but have been active around its 
 development, reviewing/merging MRs and sometimes submitting my own patches. 
  
 I happened to skim through the thread, but did not find anything concrete 
 or actionable to submit patches against. General phrases like "based on 
 personal 
 preferences" do not make much sense unless there is more reasoning. 
  
 Martin-€€ric, you filed #1099787 but you did state in [1] that the reasoning 
 for 
 this is for local package development which lintian does not aim at (as have 
 several 
 follow-ups describe). 
  
 This is not the first time I am hearing a lintian rant. I've seen this 
 before. 
 It 
 is one of the reasons I do not add myself to the uploaders field of that 
 package. 
 I am not saying any of this in an angry tone, please don't take it 
 otherwise. 
  
 If there are concrete, actionable list of items to improve and take a look 
 at, 
 which makes 
 things easy for lintian users, please suggest the same. It'd benefit 
 everyone. 
  
 And ofcourse, I agree that a "review of lintian severity levels" is a good 
 thing to 
 do here. But someone should have spoons for it, and possibly submit patches 
 for the 
 same. A lot of lintian development happens on Merge requests, and as I did 
 observe, it work out 
 pretty well. 
 (And no, I don't want to have yet another discussion about MRs, let's 
 focus energies on topic at hand for now) 
  
 [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/09/msg00351.html 
  
 Best, 
 Nilesh 
  
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