On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:29 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>>> "RD" == Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > What rpmlint chooses as a warning and what it chooses as an error seem > > to be arbitrary and not generally useful for predicting how > > significant the issues are. That is why I ask here. > > If we're speaking in "general", then consider rpmlint errors to be > serious that deserve attention, and rpmlint warnings to be less serious > and well, you get the idea. That's correct, with the addition that there are some checks that generally produce more false positives than others and aren't currently/cannot be done too robustly; in those cases I nowadays personally tend to make messages for new checks warnings even though the actual thing complained about might be a severe error if it's not a false positive. There's also quite a bit of historical baggage whose error/warning classification rationale is unknown to me, and may no longer be quite optimal as upstream rpmlint is no longer Mandriva specific. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
