Hi Glenn, On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 8:45 AM Coyot Linden (Glenn Glazer) <[email protected]> wrote: > > We'd like to use overrides to cut down on the noise, but we see > that the file lives in the /usr tree of the build host and well, we have > developer boxen where we test builds, staging and production > build hosts and so on. This means that we'd have to update all of > those machines every time we wanted an override in some > package or another.
I am trying to understand your issue better. When in the build process do you run Lintian? Are you running Lintian on the *.deb files or on the *.changes file after building? The overrides in /usr are for installed packages. > What we'd like to know is that if there is some way to specify an override > from within the package tree itself Why is the standard way of specifying overrides in packages [1] not working? [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#lintian Kind regards, Felix Lechner
