To override or not to override?
* Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org>, 2016-01-15, 15:55: lintian is wrong in this case, so there is no need to override it. Um, no; on the contrary, Lintian being wrong is the only legitimate reason to add an override. Here's how one should deal with Lintian tags: if my package is buggy: if I'm being lazy: leave the tag un-overridden, (so that it serves as a reminder for the future less-lazy me) else: fix the package else: add override if Lintian could be fixed easily: file a bug against Lintian while Lintian is still buggy: wait patiently remove override -- Jakub Wilk
Re: To override or not to override?
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 04:29:07PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org>, 2016-01-15, 15:55: > >lintian is wrong in this case, so there is no need to override it. > > Um, no; on the contrary, Lintian being wrong is the only legitimate reason > to add an override. > > Here's how one should deal with Lintian tags: Here's my flow: if my package is buggy: if i'm lazy: leave it alone else: fix the package elif lintian is buggy: if the warning is autoreject: override file a bug report else: # lintian has a sane check, but it's triggered for a false # positive, but it had no way of knowing that override I don't like having overrides sit around, and having them sit around while the version of lintian that's being used is no longer triggering makes me feel unfomfortable Paul signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: To override or not to override?
Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> writes: > I don't like having overrides sit around, and having them sit around > while the version of lintian that's being used is no longer triggering > makes me feel unfomfortable This is why Lintian will warn you about unused overrides so that you can remove them. That should make it safer to add an override for a Lintian bug, since when the bug is fixed, Lintian will tell you that you can remove it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>