Hi Christian, On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 4:45 AM Christian Göttsche <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lintian's unused-override tag for package-does-not-install-examples > seems to be unsteady:
The tag says something about how sources and the installation packages interact. It requires both to be present, i.e. to be pulled in from the command line. The easiest way is to pass the 'changes' file. My comments below that explain what is happening, but I agree that overrides for tags like package-does-not-install-examples should be handled differently. I will keep your bug open until a fix is available. > $ lintian -E -i -I --pedantic --no-tag-display-limit --color auto > --verbose logrotate_3.16.0-1.dsc > > I: logrotate source: unused-override package-does-not-install-examples > > examples/ The binary package is not present. Lintian cannot say whether any examples are being installed. The override is not used. Here, nothing should be displayed. > $ lintian -E -i -I --pedantic --no-tag-display-limit --color auto > --verbose logrotate_3.16.0-1_amd64.changes > > *nothing* Here you see the desired interaction between the tag and its override. You can try '--show-overrides' for more detail. > $ lintian -E -i -I --pedantic --no-tag-display-limit --color auto > --verbose logrotate_3.16.0-1_amd64.changes > > P: logrotate source: package-does-not-install-examples examples/ Here you see the tag after the override was removed. It is the expected behavior. Thank you for bringing the matter to our attention. Kind regards Felix Lechner
