Why discard objects without pods in the dangling-hpa check?

[mboutet]

kube-linter/pkg/templates/danglinghpa/template.go

Line 84 in 51eb58e

continue

I have a HPA targetting a KafkaNodePool resource but because of that condition in the code, it doesn't go further and it flags my HPA as being dangling.

Why is it needed to check if the potential target object has pods? Why is it not sufficient for this check to only make sure that the scaleTargetRef exists?

Thank you

[mboutet]

Posted as an issue instead #932.