overrides for some errors no longer work
Bug #824122 reported by
Brian Thomason
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lintian (Ubuntu) |
In Progress
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Medium
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Jeff Lane |
Bug Description
I haven't dug into it deeply to see what errors it effects (perhaps all, perhaps just this one), but the newest version of lintian in Oneiric (2.5.2~
Related branches
~bladernr/ubuntu/+source/lintian:824122-allow-override-dir-or-file-in-opt
- Julian Andres Klode (community): Needs Resubmitting
- git-ubuntu developers: Pending requested
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Diff: 13 lines (+5/-0)1 file modifiedprofiles/ubuntu/main.profile (+5/-0)
Changed in lintian (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in lintian (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Jeff Lane (bladernr) |
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Hi
This is a feature of the new Lintian profiles in 2.5.2. Vendor profiles may declare some tags non-overridable and dir-or-file-in-opt is one of those. The ubuntu vendor profile inherits this (indirectly) from the ftp-master- auto-reject profile.
Whether these tags should be "non-overridable" in Ubuntu, I do not know. I will leave it to Ubuntu developers to figure that out and send patches to us accordingly.
If this package is for a third-party vendor, it may be useful to create a separate lintian profile for that vendor. Please refer to the Lintian user manual (installed in /usr/share/ doc/lintian/ ) for more info on what profiles can do and how to make them.
I can second that Lintian could be more helpful with declaring that it has ignored overrides.
~Niels