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Re: Lintian based autorejects



Hi

Dne Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:21:18 +1100
Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net> napsal(a):

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:57:35PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >     - statically-linked-binary
> 
> This is not always a bug. e.g. dar-static is supposed to be statically linked!

And thus is a perfect candidate for a lintian override. Or maybe
rather filing a wishlist bug for lintian to allow statically linked
binaries in packages whose name ends with -static.

> My packages produce a number of lintian errors/warnings that I don't consider
> to be a problem (like this one) - it would be good if there was a tool I could
> use to automatically compare the output of lintian with the list documented
> here so I can find out what problems I might have without making a useless
> upload.

Just add overrides for all lintian checks which you feel are not
problem.

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