Index: pluginconf/__init__.py
==================================================================
--- pluginconf/__init__.py
+++ pluginconf/__init__.py
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@
 # api-docs: https://fossil.include-once.org/pluginspec/doc/trunk/html/index.html
 # docs: https://fossil.include-once.org/pluginspec/
 # url: http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/wiki/plugin+meta+data
 # config: -
 # format: off
+# permissive: 0.75
 # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 # console-scripts: flit-pluginconf=pluginconf.flit:main, pluginconf.flit=pluginconf.flit:main
 #
 # Provides plugin lookup and meta data extraction utility functions.
 # It's used to abstract module+option management in applications.
@@ -109,10 +110,11 @@
         def gzip_decode(bytestr):
             """ haphazard workaround """
             return zlib.decompress(bytestr, 16 + zlib.MAX_WBITS)
 import zipfile
 import argparse
+import logging
 
 __all__ = [
     "plugin_meta", "get_data", "module_list", "add_plugin_defaults",
     "PluginMeta", "all_plugin_meta",
 ]
@@ -119,11 +121,11 @@
 
 
 # Injectables
 # ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
 """ injectable callback function for logging """
-log_ERR = lambda *x: None
+log = logging.getLogger("pluginconf")
 
 """
 File lookup relation for get_data(), should name a top-level package.
 (Equivalent PluginBase(package=…))
 """
@@ -197,11 +199,11 @@
             data = gzip_decode(data)
         if decode:
             return data.decode("utf-8", errors='ignore')
         return str(data)
     except:
-        # log_ERR("get_data() didn't find:", fn, "in", file_base)
+        log.error("get_data() didn't find:", fn, "in", file_base)
         pass
 
 
 # Plugin name lookup
 # ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
@@ -353,11 +355,11 @@
     # Extract coherent comment block
     src = src.replace("\r", "")
     if not literal:
         src = rx.comment.search(src)
         if not src:
-            log_ERR("Couldn't read source meta information:", filename)
+            log.error("Couldn't read source meta information:", filename)
             return meta
         src = src.group(0)
         src = rx.hash.sub("", src).strip()
 
     # Split comment block

Index: pluginconf/depends.py
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--- pluginconf/depends.py
+++ pluginconf/depends.py
@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@
 # depends: pluginconf >= 0.7
 # version: 0.5
 # state: beta
 # license: PD
 # priority: optional
+# permissive: 0.8
 #
 # This is a rather basic depends: checker, mostly for local and
 # installable modules. It's largely built around streamtuner2
 # requirements, and should be customized.
 #

Index: pluginconf/flit.py
==================================================================
--- pluginconf/flit.py
+++ pluginconf/flit.py
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 # description: wraps flit_core.buildapi
 # version: 0.3
 # depends: python:flit (>=3.0, <4.0)
 # license: BSD-3-Clause
 # priority: extra
+# permissive: 0.1
 # pylint: disable=unused-import, wrong-import-position, wrong-import-order
 #
 # As alternative to pluginconf.setup, this module is using flit as
 # pep517 build backend. But adding automagic field lookup of course.
 #

Index: pluginconf/gui.py
==================================================================
--- pluginconf/gui.py
+++ pluginconf/gui.py
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
 # description: Display plugins + options in setup window
 # version: 0.8
 # depends: python:pysimplegui (>= 4.0)
 # priority: optional
 # config: -
+# permissive: 0.5
 # pylint: disable=line-too-long
 #
 # Creates a PySimpleGUI options list. Scans a given list of *.py files
 # for meta data, then populates a config{} dict and (optionally) a state
 # map for plugins themselves.

Index: pluginconf/setup.py
==================================================================
--- pluginconf/setup.py
+++ pluginconf/setup.py
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 ##type: functions
 # title: setup() wrapper
 # description: utilizes PMD to populate some package fields
 # version: 0.5
 # license: PD
+# permissive: 0.3
 # pylint: disable=line-too-long
 #
 # Utilizes plugin meta data to cut down setup.py incantations
 # to basically just:
 #