diff --git a/pkg/lint/rules.go b/pkg/lint/rules.go
index 834c3dd7..b6306862 100644
--- a/pkg/lint/rules.go
+++ b/pkg/lint/rules.go
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ var AllRules = func(l *Linter) Rules { //nolint:gocyclo
 		{
 			Name:        "valid-version-stream",
 			Description: "check the provides and tag filter if version stream suffix is passed to package name",
-			Severity:    SeverityError,
+			Severity:    SeverityWarning,
 			LintFunc: func(c config.Configuration) error {
 				// This regex captures a string that ends with a semantic version (semver) suffix.
 				// It returns two groups:
diff --git a/pkg/lint/rules_test.go b/pkg/lint/rules_test.go
index eea335d9..99c3da41 100644
--- a/pkg/lint/rules_test.go
+++ b/pkg/lint/rules_test.go
@@ -412,19 +412,21 @@ func TestLinter_Rules(t *testing.T) {
 					},
 				},
 			},
+			wantErr: false,
+			matches: 1,
 		},
 		{
 			file:        "version-stream-missing-provides-1.2.yaml",
-			minSeverity: SeverityError,
+			minSeverity: SeverityWarning,
 			want: EvalResult{
 				File: "version-stream-missing-provides-1.2",
 				Errors: EvalRuleErrors{
 					{
 						Rule: Rule{
 							Name:     "valid-version-stream",
-							Severity: SeverityError,
+							Severity: SeverityWarning,
 						},
-						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but version-stream-missing-provides=${{package.full-version}} is missing on dependencies.provides (ERROR)"),
+						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but version-stream-missing-provides=${{package.full-version}} is missing on dependencies.provides (WARNING)"),
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -433,16 +435,16 @@ func TestLinter_Rules(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 		{
 			file:        "version-stream-missing-update-tagfilter-1.2.yaml",
-			minSeverity: SeverityError,
+			minSeverity: SeverityWarning,
 			want: EvalResult{
 				File: "version-stream-missing-update-tagfilter-1.2",
 				Errors: EvalRuleErrors{
 					{
 						Rule: Rule{
 							Name:     "valid-version-stream",
-							Severity: SeverityError,
+							Severity: SeverityWarning,
 						},
-						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but tag filter 1.2 is mismatch on update.github (ERROR)"),
+						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but tag filter 1.2 is mismatch on update.github (WARNING)"),
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -451,16 +453,16 @@ func TestLinter_Rules(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 		{
 			file:        "version-stream-missing-update-tagfilter-1.2-999.yaml",
-			minSeverity: SeverityError,
+			minSeverity: SeverityWarning,
 			want: EvalResult{
 				File: "version-stream-missing-update-tagfilter-1.2",
 				Errors: EvalRuleErrors{
 					{
 						Rule: Rule{
 							Name:     "valid-version-stream",
-							Severity: SeverityError,
+							Severity: SeverityWarning,
 						},
-						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but tag filter 1.2 is mismatch on update.github (ERROR)"),
+						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but tag filter 1.2 is mismatch on update.github (WARNING)"),
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -485,16 +487,16 @@ func TestLinter_Rules(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 		{
 			file:        "version-stream-mismatch-version-1.2.yaml",
-			minSeverity: SeverityError,
+			minSeverity: SeverityWarning,
 			want: EvalResult{
 				File: "version-stream-mismatch-version-1.2",
 				Errors: EvalRuleErrors{
 					{
 						Rule: Rule{
 							Name:     "valid-version-stream",
-							Severity: SeverityError,
+							Severity: SeverityWarning,
 						},
-						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but package.version 1.7 starts with different than given version stream 1.2 (ERROR)"),
+						Error: fmt.Errorf("[valid-version-stream]: package is version streamed but package.version 1.7 starts with different than given version stream 1.2 (WARNING)"),
 					},
 				},
 			},
diff --git a/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-mismatch-version-1.2.yaml b/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-mismatch-version-1.2.yaml
index 5164d335..3a495d13 100644
--- a/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-mismatch-version-1.2.yaml
+++ b/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-mismatch-version-1.2.yaml
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@ pipeline:
 test:
   pipeline:
     - runs: "echo 'test'"
+
+update:
+  enabled: true
diff --git a/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-missing-provides-1.2.yaml b/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-missing-provides-1.2.yaml
index 19c81da5..31c1a5f4 100644
--- a/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-missing-provides-1.2.yaml
+++ b/pkg/lint/testdata/files/version-stream-missing-provides-1.2.yaml
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@ pipeline:
 test:
   pipeline:
     - runs: "echo 'test'"
+
+update:
+  enabled: true