Package: dh-r Version: 20190121 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: lintian-ma...@debian.org
Hi, In #930311, Niels Thykier mentions that he: > noticed that the dh-r package by default creates an override for > package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc when the R > package puts documentation in usr/lib/R/site-library To wit, https://sources.debian.org/src/dh-r/20190121/dh/R.pm/?hl=3#L268. My retort was that "the idea of automatically-generated overrides simply makes me squirm" and so I added an exception to Lintian itself here: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/a16cd3a1c812c8894bddf9b920561eb0dd602d85 Accordingly, please remove the automatic generation code. At the very least it will now result in annoying "unused override" warnings instead. (As an aside, if a similar situation occurs in the future, please consider requesting the Lintian maintainers to make a general exception; it is surely poor software engineering practice to litter our entire archive when we can so easily fix it in one place.) Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-