Package: lintian
Version: 2.130.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Lintian maintainers,
I am attempting to override 3 instances of spelling-error-in-binary. One
is an intentional misspelling used as an example and the other two can't
be changed for API reasons.
When using lintian-override syntax like:
> zoitechat binary: spelling-error-in-binary teh the
Lintian returns:
> W: zoitechat: mismatched-override spelling-error-in-binary teh the
[usr/share/lintian/overrides/zoitechat:2]
> X: zoitechat: spelling-error-in-binary teh the [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
If I include the whole contents of the brackets, including the line number:
> zoitechat binary: spelling-error-in-binary teh the [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
Lintian accepts the override:
> N: intentional typo as example for autoreplace function
> O: zoitechat: spelling-error-in-binary teh the [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
If I include the path in brackets without the line number, I get the
former behaviour.
In the Lintian manual [1] it clearly states that "What's inside brackets
is optional and may be omitted if you want to match it all." But it's
apparently not optional in my case.
I confirmed this on my own workstation, in sbuild, and on a clean sid
VM. You can clone the https://salsa.debian.org/sney/zoitechat repo and
see for yourself by editing d/zoitechat.lintian-overrides as described
above.
Is this a new change, and the manual needs updating? Or is it a bug in
lintian?
Thanks for your work,
sney
[1] https://lintian.debian.org/manual/index.html#format-of-override-files
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Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii appstream 1.1.2-1
ii binutils 2.46-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-6+b1
ii diffstat 1.68-1
ii dpkg 1.23.5
ii dpkg-dev 1.23.5
ii file 1:5.46-5+b1
ii gettext 0.23.2-1
ii gpg 2.4.8-5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6
ii iso-codes 4.20.1-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.43
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.66-2
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.50-1
ii libclone-perl 0.47-1+b2
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.40-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.60-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.15-1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-3
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.86-1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.23.5
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b4
ii libencode-perl 3.21-1+b3
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.35-1
ii libfile-libmagic-perl 1.23-2+b2
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3
ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.027-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.049-1
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004008-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1
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ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4
ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1
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ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.637-1+b1
ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b3
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b3
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.31-1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b4
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b4
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.18-1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-2+b2
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.46-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.63-1
ii liburi-perl 5.34-2
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.20-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-7
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ii t1utils 1.41-4
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ii xz-utils 5.8.2-2
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1
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