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. adam@jacala:~/code/debian/lintian$ cat data/fields/toolchain cdbs debhelper Regards, Adam