Bug#930311: lintian: Possible exception to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc

2019-06-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Niels, > Re: > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/a16cd3a1c812c8894bddf9b920561eb0dd602d85 > > I suspect we should probably match usr/lib/R/site-library/ as a prefix > rather than an exact match. Whoops. Fixed in: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/3ced3d1b699f86

Bug#930311: lintian: Possible exception to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc

2019-06-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Chris Lamb: > Hi Niels, > >> My question is: Should we move this exception to lintian itself and >> stop having people automate overrides > > Oh, without any doubt here — the idea of automatically-generated > overrides simply makes me squirm. > > (Shall we begin by cloning this bug "against" dh-

Bug#930311: lintian: Possible exception to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc

2019-06-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Niels Thykier wrote: > If we intend to create the exception in lintian, I would personally > probably go with making the exception first and then filing the bug > against dh-r to remove the auto-generation. Good call. I've done the former task and filed the latter as #930369. Regards, --

Bug#930311: lintian: Possible exception to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc

2019-06-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Chris Lamb: > Hi Niels, > >> My question is: Should we move this exception to lintian itself and >> stop having people automate overrides > > Oh, without any doubt here — the idea of automatically-generated > overrides simply makes me squirm. > > (Shall we begin by cloning this bug "against" dh-

Bug#930311: lintian: Possible exception to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc

2019-06-10 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Niels, > My question is: Should we move this exception to lintian itself and > stop having people automate overrides Oh, without any doubt here — the idea of automatically-generated overrides simply makes me squirm. (Shall we begin by cloning this bug "against" dh-r?) Regards, -- ,'

Bug#930311: lintian: Possible exception to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc

2019-06-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: lintian Version: 2.15.0 Severity: normal Hi, I noticed that the dh-r package by default creates an override for package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc when the R package puts documentation in usr/lib/R/site-library: """ my $check_for_docs = `find debian/$dh{FIRSTPACKAG