Package: lintian Version: 1.23.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello
It took me a while to figure out why my overrides do not work. I don't know if lintian or the docs are wrong but adjusting the docs is sufficient in this case. bye, -christian- --- doc/lintian.sgml.orig 2004-07-26 01:37:14.000000000 +0200 +++ doc/lintian.sgml 2004-07-26 01:39:14.000000000 +0200 @@ -452,7 +452,8 @@ is one of <tt>binary</tt>, <tt>udeb</tt> and <tt>source</tt>, and <tt><lintian-info></tt> is all additional information provided by Lintian except for the tag. (lintian-info is optional, type can -be omitted if it is <tt>binary</tt>). +be omitted if it is <tt>binary</tt>, package and type have to be omitted +if it is a <tt>source</tt> package). An example file for a binary package would look like: <example> /usr/share/lintian/overrides/foo, where foo is the name of your package @@ -465,8 +466,8 @@ An example file for a source package would look like: <example> debian/source.lintian-overrides in your base source directory -foo source: debian-files-list-in-source -foo source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.cache +debian-files-list-in-source +configure-generated-file-in-source config.cache </example> <p> -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux app109 2.6.5-app109-4 #1 Sat May 8 23:08:00 CEST 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (ignored: LC_ALL set) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.34-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 4.09-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.1-5 GNU Internationalization utilities ii man-db 2.4.2-19 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information
