[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lazarus lintian warnings

[Peter B]

On 22/10/2024 09:45, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22-10-2024 08:09, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>>> 1) hardening-no-pie
>>> This is a direct consequence of disabling -pie on architectures
>>> where fpc won't build that way. So makes sense to override these.
>> I would rather not hide an obvious problem and let it be visible.
>> FPC has a real issue there, and we should not mask it.
>> I don't recommend this way of hiding issues.
>
> I have a different view. lintian is supposed to help maintainers (they 
> different from bug reports exposed to the outside world). If one has 
> investigated a problem and it's not going to be fixed anytime soon, an 
> override (with documentation) is the way to go in my opinion. I don't 
> consider this hiding, particularly with documentation quite the contrary.
>
> Paul

Hi Paul, Abou,

This is what I'm doing with my own Pascal packages. I see visible 
Lintian Warnings as a sort of todo list.
This particular Warning is rather useless IMHO, as there is no clue as 
to which architectures are affected,
whereas an override would list them explicitly. I can also easily add an 
additional note in the README.Debian

Cheers,
Peter