On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:29 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "RD" == Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu>
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.