[aur-general] Fwd: FS#60333: namcap exits 0 when errors found (Task closed)

[Doug Newgard]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 13:43:28 +0700
Tom Hale <tom at hale.ee> wrote:

> On 8/10/18 1:35 pm, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote:
> > namcap's output is informational, nothing more. Taking it as gospel or using it
> > as any kind of automated checking instead of actually reading the output is not
> > sane.  
> 
> For greater specificity, the informational output can be split into:
> 
> * Information (-i)
> * Warnings
> * Errors
> 
> Unless they are badly named, are there any cases in which an error is 
> not an error?
> 
> And if so, that rule could be excluded with --rules=, again making the 
> exit code useful.
> 

Every single error can be a false positive.