Jereme Corrado wrote: > I was thinking about an override, (linda complains) and my sponsor > pointed out that he thought he recalled that overrides should be > reported. I wasn't able to find any mention of this so I was hoping > for some insight from the list.
The lintian documentation in section 2.4 covers this, although I don't think it is mentioned in any linda docs. The docs give three cases: lintian (or linda) has a bug; lintian isn't smart enough to figure out that the reported error/warning is a special case allowed by policy; or policy in general allows exceptions to a rule checked by lintian. It looks like you probably fall under case 2. In the first case, file a bug against lintian/linda; in the second/third cases, one "should contact the Lintian maintainers too, including the Lintian error message and a short note, stating why you think this is an exception." For what it's worth, I am a horrible person and haven't reported any of the overrides I've put in my packages to stop lintian from giving spurious warnings. :-) My overrides are trivial enough that I don't think they are worth wasting the lintian maintainers' time. Hmm, on a second look maybe I will report the one for viewglob. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
