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

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2026 07:56:49 +0000

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On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 11:48:44PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 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.

I understand. Still, for CPAN and pypi packages there *is* nothing you
can do about it, so I think overriding the correct lintian is the right
thing to do.

And better yet, if some automatism would detect cpan/pypi and spare
you that overriding too.

-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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