Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2.1 Severity: wishlist Quoting http://blog.technologeek.org/2009/07/09/227: How to not use lintian overrides
Look what just got added to all the packages maintained by the Debian Forensics team: --- md5deep-3.4.orig/debian/source.lintian-overrides +++ md5deep-3.4/debian/source.lintian-overrides @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Avoid warnings if non-uploaders to uploads. +md5deep source: changelog-should-mention-nmu +md5deep source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number You’re doing it wrong. Reading this, i'm wondering if some lintian results shouldn't be made non-overridable. What do you think? Mike -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
