On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 12:43 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Dear Adam, > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 05:39:52AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > The tag description explicitly indicates that this is expected in the > > situation you describe. > > I know. I was under the impression, though, that all false positives > are considered Lintian bugs.
It's a situation that Lintian can't reasonably address, as it doesn't know what files are in the package that you depend on. The tag's intentionally marked as Experimental; I'm not sure whether the current recommendation for such tags is to override or simply ignore them. Regards, Adam
