The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 9a8b5709d7cc0bc8df7d0c47c66d29ce340b0ed9
Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jan 19 14:25:25 2012 +0100
Explicitly say that profile directories are searched in order
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
diff --git a/doc/lintian.xml b/doc/lintian.xml
index 575ad08..cf71bee 100644
--- a/doc/lintian.xml
+++ b/doc/lintian.xml
@@ -737,6 +737,13 @@ foo [!any-i386] binary: some-tag-not-for-i386
optional-extra
subdirectories of the directories above for Lintian
to recognise them.
</para>
+ <para>
+ The directories are checking in the listed order and the
+ first file matching the profile will be used. This allows
+ users to override a system profile by putting one with the
+ same filename
+ in <filename>$HOME/.lintian/profiles</filename>.
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="2.5.2" id="section-2.5.2">
<title>Profile syntax and semantics</title>
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