From: nilesh@debian.org   
      
   On 16/02/26 1:55 am, John Scott wrote:   
   > Nilesh Patra wrote:   
   >> While this is technically correct, is there a reason that you do not wish   
   to use "%"?   
   > and in that regard Lintian's exceptionally harsh treatment of respectable   
   syntax which is more interoperable feels like ossification (see my next answer   
   to your other remark): tying my hands and barring me from using my creativity   
   to try something neat.   
   >   
      
   I've raised a merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/li   
   tian/-/merge_requests/664   
      
   > ...   
   >   
   >> I ran a search [1] and I don't see even a single package in the archive   
   that uses .DEFAULT rule.   
   > That's because, as I had happen to me, the fatal Lintian error is so serious   
   that it results in an automatic and non-overridable FTP Master rejection:   
   https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/data/arch   
   ve/auto-rejection.yaml#L76   
      
   That is no longer true. FTP master machine has stopped running lintian on   
   sourceful uploads.   
      
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