From: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi 
  
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 Greetings, 
  
 Now that the first Trixie point release is behind us, I wanted to 
 bring up an issue that has long been bothering me: 
  
 Lintian severity levels. 
  
 Lintian currently reports many issues as Error or Warning without 
 referring to specific Policy items. As far as I can tell, the severity 
 level for any given Lintian tag seemingly is completely arbitrary, 
 based on the personal preferences of whoever made the commit for any 
 specific tag. 
  
 IMHO, in order for Lintian's severity levels to be meaningful in 
 determining a package's fitness for inclusion in the Debian 
 repository, an Error ought to refer to a MUST[NOT] Policy item, while 
 a Warning ought to refer to a SHOULD[NOT] Policy item. Everything else 
 ought to be downgraded to a mere Pedantic or Experimental level. 
  
 IMHO, During the Forky cycle, an extensive review of Lintian's 
 severity levels for every tag ought to be performed, starting with 
 those for which a bug report against Lintian has been filed. 
  
 Comments and feedback on the above are welcome. 
  
 Best Regards, 
 Martin-€€ric 
  
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