On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:22:16PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > If you look closely, rpmlint output is separated into warnings (W:) and > errors (E:). Just like a C compiler. If I remember well Ville said that the difference between W and E was quite arbitrary. > Errors MUST be fixed to pass review. (Or to pass the upcoming > rpmlint-after-build test) Some errors have to be ignored (from the top of my head, errors about setuid binaries, for example). > Warnings can be ignored IF (BIG IF) there is reasonable justification. > For example, the common "no documentation" warning with sub-packages > such as -devel. Often all documentation goes into the main package, and > there's nothing suited to go in the -devel package. In my opinion it should be like that for W and E rpmlint messages indistinctly. Maybe E may be scrutated more, but it isn't obvious either. -- Pat -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
