Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.16 Followup-For: Bug #109642 I'm ccing the current maintainers of lintian so that they can give their opinion on this bug.
Given the opinions voiced in this bug log here's what I suggest : Overrides should only be placed with care, that's right, that doesn't mean we shouldn't make it easy. Instead we should warn the maintainer that the override is meant as a temporay measure until lintian is fixed. Maybe the dh_lintian script should systematically print a prominent warning in the build log asking the maintainer to check wether the lintian override is still needed ? But IMHO, debian/<package>.lintian-overrides should automatically be installed in /usr/share/lintian/overrides/<package> by one of the dh_* script (maybe dh_lintian could be folded into a generic dh_ script?). Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-386 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20051214-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils [fileutils 5.93-5 The GNU core utilities ii debconf-utils 1.4.67 debconf utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11.1 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 0.9.2 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
