Merge pull request #2396 from adamrtalbot/drop_docker_container_error…

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fix: Drop container error to warning

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 - Add module MULTIQC to modules.config ([#2377](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2377))
 - Update the Code of Conduct ([#2381](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2381))
 - Save template information to `.nf-core.yml` and deprecate argument `--template-yaml` for `nf-core sync` ([#2388](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2388) and [#2389](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2389))
-- Remove fixed Ubuntu test and added to standard testing matrix
+- ([#2397](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2397)) Remove fixed Ubuntu test and added to standard testing matrix
+- ([#2396](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2396)) Reduce container finding error to warning since the registries are not consistent.
 
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nf_core/modules/lint/main_nf.py

@@ -346,8 +346,9 @@ def check_process_section(self, lines, registry, fix_version, progress_bar):
         if url is None:
             continue
         try:
+            container_url = "https://" + urlunparse(url) if not url.scheme == "https" else urlunparse(url)
             response = requests.head(
-                "https://" + urlunparse(url) if not url.scheme == "https" else urlunparse(url),
+                container_url,
                 stream=True,
                 allow_redirects=True,
             )
@@ -360,10 +361,10 @@ def check_process_section(self, lines, registry, fix_version, progress_bar):
             self.failed.append(("container_links", "Unable to connect to container URL", self.main_nf))
             continue
         if not response.ok:
-            self.failed.append(
+            self.warned.append(
                 (
                     "container_links",
-                    f"Unable to connect to {response.url}, status code: {response.status_code}",
+                    f"Unable to connect to container registry, code:  {response.status_code}, url: {response.url}",
                     self.main_nf,
                 )
             )