Bug#1007002: lintian: transition to "pointed hints" has invalidated many overrides

Hi Simon, Simon McVittie wrote: > Control: unblock 1006348 by -1 Thanks! > #1007002 was marked as blocking #1006348 "lintian: Tag > improbable-bug-number-in-closes condition considers 7-digit bug numbers > improbable", but I think that was a side-effect of the merge Definitely. All three

Bug#1007002: lintian: transition to "pointed hints" has invalidated many overrides

Control: unblock 1006348 by -1 On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 05:15:19 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > And #1007002 is only (!) about design decision to change nearly all > tag formats involving file paths and line numbers. It has nothing to > do with the other two real bugs and I have no idea why they have

Bug#1007002: lintian: transition to "pointed hints" has invalidated many overrides

Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: important There seems to be an ongoing transition in Lintian, in which hints that report a filename or line in an ad-hoc way are being converted to "pointed hints" that use a new format with the filename in square brackets. One of the design decisions