Processed: bug reported already and marked wontfix

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: merge 456657 120323 Bug#120323: [external] Cannot detect manual pages provided by dependencies Bug#456657: lintian: should check for man-page availability in the Depends/Pre-Depends packages Merged 120323 456657. thanks Stopping processing here.

Bug#456657: lintian: should check for man-page availability in the Depends/Pre-Depends packages

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.36 Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lintian currently flags the absence of a man-page for a binary. However, some packages have the man-page in the arch-indep package and depend on it and the binary will not be installed without the

Processed: detect missing version-mangling in debian/watch

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clone 456629 -1 Bug#456629: lintian: detect missing version mangling in debian/watch for dfsg-ed packages Bug 456629 cloned as bug 456656. reassign -1 linda Bug#456656: lintian: detect missing version mangling in debian/watch for dfsg-ed packages

lintian not recognizing override file?

Hi people! Patrick and I are trying to create a lintian override for this message: W: xtermset source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.status I have tried various combination for the override file: configure-generated-file-in-source xtermset: configure-generated-file-in-source

Bug#456657: lintian: should check for man-page availability in the Depends/Pre-Depends packages

Y Giridhar Appaji Nag [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.36 Severity: wishlist lintian currently flags the absence of a man-page for a binary. However, some packages have the man-page in the arch-indep package and depend on it and the binary will not be installed

Re: lintian not recognizing override file?

Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi people! Patrick and I are trying to create a lintian override for this message: W: xtermset source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.status I have tried various combination for the override file:

Re: lintian not recognizing override file?

Hi Russ! On Dec 17, 2007 5:30 PM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lintian (version 3.7.3) also says: (That's a Policy version rather than a lintian version.) Argh... sorry. I was thinking in one thing and I wrote another one :-/ First, you're installing an override for the *binary*

Bug#456515: lintian: Undesirable spelling warning on changelog entries describing spelling fixes

Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ The current spelling check isn't line-based, but maybe we could make it a bit smarter so that it ignores spelling errors in the changelog entry if the word spelling occurs on the same line. This won't catch all cases like yours, but might reduce