diff --git a/build-logic/convention/src/main/kotlin/HedvigLintConventionPlugin.kt b/build-logic/convention/src/main/kotlin/HedvigLintConventionPlugin.kt
index bc6f7496c7..7f4995a312 100644
--- a/build-logic/convention/src/main/kotlin/HedvigLintConventionPlugin.kt
+++ b/build-logic/convention/src/main/kotlin/HedvigLintConventionPlugin.kt
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ class HedvigLintConventionPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
 }
 
 private fun Lint.configure(lintXmlFile: File, lintBaselineFile: File) {
-  baseline = lintBaselineFile
+  // Lint aborts the build whenever it has to create a baseline, even when it found nothing to put in
+  // one, and the baseline it leaves behind then suppresses real errors on the next run. A module opts
+  // in by committing the file: create it empty, then fill it with `updateLintBaseline`.
+  baseline = lintBaselineFile.takeIf(File::exists)
   lintConfig = lintXmlFile
   xmlReport = true
 }
diff --git a/hedvig-lint/lint.xml b/hedvig-lint/lint.xml
index 5152aacc2b..036ff3c1f0 100644
--- a/hedvig-lint/lint.xml
+++ b/hedvig-lint/lint.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
        config entry for a check absent from a given module isn't flagged. -->
   <issue id="UnknownIssueId" severity="ignore" />
 
+  <!-- Renovate (renovate.json) owns dependency freshness, so lint's version-staleness notices are
+       duplicate signal. They also resolve against the shared root gradle/libs.versions.toml rather
+       than the module being linted, so they report identically no matter which module runs lint. -->
+  <issue id="GradleDependency" severity="ignore" />
+  <issue id="NewerVersionAvailable" severity="ignore" />
+
   <issue id="ButtonCase" severity="ignore" />
   <issue id="TypographyDashes" severity="ignore" />
   <issue id="TypographyEllipsis" severity="ignore" />