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commit f67f5cfd6833607ce464e8e89f37751b4d62b9a0 Author: Chris Lamb <[email protected]> Date: Thu Nov 2 23:38:50 2017 +0100 Improve overrides docs using source-is-missing as an example. (Closes: #838807) --- debian/changelog | 4 ++++ doc/lintian.xml | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index af60975..7e725f5 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ lintian (2.5.58) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * data/spelling/corrections: + [AB] Add more misspellings of the word "dependency". + * doc/lintian.xml: + + [CL] Improve overrides docs using source-is-missing as an example. + (Closes: #838807) + * vendors/ubuntu/main/data/changes-file/known-dists: + [CL] Add bionic as known Ubuntu distribution. Thanks Jeremy Bicha! (Closes: #880115) diff --git a/doc/lintian.xml b/doc/lintian.xml index f4a3ff9..840d86f 100644 --- a/doc/lintian.xml +++ b/doc/lintian.xml @@ -608,7 +608,12 @@ foo source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.cache info, too (second line in the examples). If you add an asterisk (<literal>*</literal>) in the additional info, this will match arbitrary strings similar to the shell wildcard. + For example: </para> + <screen> +# The "help text" must also be covered by the override +source-is-missing apidoc/html/api_data.js * +</screen> <para> The first wildcard support appeared in Lintian 2.0.0, which only allowed the wildcards in the very beginning or end. -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git

