Re: Cleaning out Lintian's "Experimental: yes" tags

Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Jan 2026 14:08:42 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/4/26 4:44 AM, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I really like this one ;-)
> 
> It's a nice way to show goodwill and start contributing
> trivial changes to an upstream project; before starting a second PR
> with more controversial changes.
> 
> Greetings
> 
>> * spelling-error-in-binary
>>   - last updated: 2019-03
>>   - 336,571 entries in UDD
>>   - As many pointed out, this tag frequently has false positives and even when the issue is valid, it's often hard to fix them upstream.
> 

Hmm, ok agreed, I guess the logic behind this tag is indeed valid.

Any thoughts of making it "Experimental: no" ? I worry it would annoy 
people but...

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