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

gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2026 23:48:44 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:30:30 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 05:30:32AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> > > > * debian-watch-does-not-check-openpgp-signature
>> > > I disagree.
>> > Hmm ok, let's keep this one then.
>> :sadface:
>> I think this is the lintian tag I hate the most, because (Meta)CPAN doesn't
>> support signatures, so I'm seeing this tag for each and every update of a
>> Perl package, and I can't do anything about it.
>(I do get your sad face but)
>surely you can override those?
>As I see it, it's sad that (Meta)CPAN doesnt sign the releases, but that
>should not cause everybody else to do have equally poor practices?!?

I guess my frustration stems from the combination of
- lintian being right (there is no OpenPGP signature), so an override
   would be wrong IMO;
- and me being unable to do anything about it.


Cheers,
gregor

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