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

On 1/7/26 8:56 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like something for the screen masking functionality.

We already have for example:

  N: masked by screen python/egg/metadata
  M: python3-rasterio: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc [usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rasterio-1.5.0.dist-info/top_level.txt]

We could add something like:

  N: masked by screen perl/cpan/watch
  M: libgeo-gpx-perl source: debian-watch-does-not-check-openpgp-signature [debian/watch]

Kind Regards,

Bas