Bug#765503: lintian: privacy-breach should be a warning, not an error

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.27
Severity: normal

Hello,

I noticed the introduction of a new warning affecting some of my packages:
privacy-breach-may-use-debian-package

While I am happy we have that in Lintian, I don't think that should be
considered as an error but treated as a warning.

AFAIK, it does not violate the policy and it does not break the normal behavior
of the software.

Thanks for considering lowering the severity of this issue,
Sylvestre



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.24.51.20140918-1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-7
ii  diffstat                       1.58-1
ii  file                           1:5.19-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.2-2
ii  hardening-includes             2.6
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b2
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.38-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.37-1+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.17.13
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.195-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.03-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.92-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.33-2+b1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1.1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.09-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.64-1
ii  man-db                         2.6.7.1-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.3-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.20.1-1
ii  t1utils                        1.37-2.1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl             <none>
ii  perl                            5.20.1-1
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.20.1-1

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.17.13
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-1+b2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  libyaml-perl           1.12-1
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

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