On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 07:38:32PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 10:34 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Control: retitle -1 Doesn't show unused override > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 06:41:14PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > [...] > > > Check out https://lintian.debian.org/tags/unused-override.html > > > > Interesting. I filed this because I observed lintian not raising this > > when I expected it to. > > > > For a test case, git clone https://joshtriplett.org/git/josh-meta and > > run ./build in that directory. Note that the josh-dev package has a > > now-unnecessary lintian override, which should trigger unused- > > override. > > How is it unused / unnecessary? > > <quote> > Package: josh-dev > Architecture: all > Depends: > autoconf, > automake, > build-essential, > ccache, > colordiff, > debhelper, > </quote> > > and the use of debhelper triggers binary-package-depends-on-toolchain- > package, which is the only tag that josh-dev overrides.
It no longer triggers that tag as of lintian 2.5.104, which allows metapackages to depend on toolchain packages.