Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist Usertags: lintian
If lintian decides to autoreject a package, the REJECT message contains the reasoning in the form of the lintian error that triggered the message. This is cool. However, sometimes this info is not enough. Esp. since lintian has become a faster-moving target, where lintian-overrides developed and tested on sid might be useless on the the lintian as run by dak (which i understand is running Debian/stable). I therefore suggest to include some more information in the REJECT message, namely: - the lintian version used by dak - a full output of lintian (including at least all E and W tags) in *addition* to the actual tags that triggered the reject. e.g. recently my package "libogg" got autorejected with the following message: ``` libogg source: lintian output: 'license-problem-non-free-RFC doc/rfc3533.txt', automatically rejected package. libogg source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag. ``` In this particular case, the RFC text has been relicensed so we can ship it, and therefore the package ships a debian/source/lintian-overrides with the following content: ``` # see debian/copyright license-problem-non-free-RFC [doc/rfc3533.txt] license-problem-non-free-RFC-BCP78 [doc/rfc5334.txt] ``` Unfortunately the lintian_2.104.0 does not understand the "[filepattern]" syntax yet, so lintian detected a REJECT-tag *and* a mismatched override. It would have helped me a lot, if the REJECT message had contained something like: ``` libogg source: lintian output: 'license-problem-non-free-RFC doc/rfc3533.txt', automatically rejected package. libogg source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag. This rejection message was triggered by Lintian v2.104.0. Lintian reported the following issues: E: libogg source: license-problem-non-free-RFC doc/rfc3533.txt E: libogg source: license-problem-non-free-RFC-BCP78 doc/rfc5334.txt W: libogg source: mismatched-override license-problem-non-free-RFC [doc/rfc3533.txt] W: libogg source: mismatched-override license-problem-non-free-RFC-BCP78 [doc/rfc5334.txt] W: libogg source: newer-standards-version 4.6.1 (current is 4.5.1) N: 0 hints overridden; 3 unused overrides ``` thanks for your consideration. fmas IOhannes
