Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-11 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Hugh, On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 5:48 PM Hugh McMaster wrote: > > To avoid specifying the tag override four times, I tried "line 35 41 > 57 132" but that didn't work at all. I am not opposed to the idea (or to making overrides easier to use in other ways) but isn't the array as susceptible to

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-11 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Hugh, On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 9:54 PM Hugh McMaster wrote: > > Is it possible to make the line number component an optional array? line > [1,3,5] Do you mean overriding some line numbers, but leaving others? Thanks! Kind regards Felix Lechner

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-10 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 3:33 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > I’ve not yet tested ... > whether the asterisk indeed allows anything to come after, > i.e. “line * ot to” isn’t equivalent to “line *”… I am not sure it's a good feature, but it should work. [1][2] Kind regards Felix Lechner [1]

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Felix Lechner dixit: >By the way, you should also be able to use the wildcards * and ? in >lieu of the line numbers right now. Please let me know if that works. So indeed: -mksh source: debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri http://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/dist/mir/mksh/ +mksh source:

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-06 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 6:21 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Can I use a wildcard then? By the way, you should also be able to use the wildcards * and ? in lieu of the line numbers right now. Please let me know if that works. Thanks! Kind regards Felix Lechner

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-06 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 6:21 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > mksh: typo-in-manual-page usr/share/man/man1/mksh.1.gz ot to * Yes, that should work. I rewrote the override handling, but some parts are not fully specified. (I can't remember which.) Is 'mksh' the package giving you trouble? If so,

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Felix Lechner dixit: >At first glance, the line numbers seemed like a customer-friendly way >to distinguish hints, but I see your point. (Many more hints are fixed >than overridden.) Indeed, but it makes overriding them in the case where that’s truly the correct action (at no fault of lintian)

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-06 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 5:48 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > less context may actually > be enough to identify the issue in question, as is here, where the line > number, which is a more fragile identifier, is not needed. We may be able to offer a command line option to turn off the line

Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

2021-10-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: lintian Version: 2.107.0 Please reconsider changing and extending the context of various tags. More specifically: • debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri old context: the URI new context: the URI plus " (line 2)" • typo-in-manual-page old context: file, space, old word, space, new word