Subject: [bug#71697] [PATCH v3 2/2] scripts: lint: Honor package property to exclude checkers.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:40:55 +0200

Greg Hogan <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM Maxim Cournoyer
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think these exclusions should be committed in general to the
>> repo, except when we have for example the author of some software
>> explicitly requesting that SWH archival be disabled for it in Guix.
>
> Author requests are as problematic to a free software distribution as
> the earlier demands to modify historical data are to reproducibility.

+1

I think this would be a slippery slope.  Free software is meant to be
freely redistributable, unconditionally.

Ludo’.