Movin discussion from debian-mentors to debian-doc [Was: problem with lintian overrides]
On Miércoles 29 Septiembre 2010 12:27:07 Karl Goetz escribió:
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:54:07 +0100
>
> Noel David Torres Taño <envite@rolamasao.org> wrote:
> > On Domingo 19 Septiembre 2010 13:00:17 Karl Goetz escribió:
> > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:25:31 +0100
>
> Sorry about the lag.
>
> > > Noel David Torres Taño <envite@rolamasao.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sábado 18 Septiembre 2010 15:01:55 Peter Pentchev escribió:
> > > > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > > > > > On 2010-09-18 14:27 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
> > > > > > Hello mentors:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have some problems with lintian overrides. My package show
these:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -----
> > > > > > > lintian -I -E --pedantic kstars-data-extra-
tycho2_1.1r1-1_all.deb
> > > > > > > I: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: unused-debconf-template kstars-
data-
> > > > > > > extra/kstarsrc-exists
> > > > > > > I: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: unused-debconf-template kstars-
data-
> > > > > > > extra/kstarsrc-does-not-exist
> > > > > > > P: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: no-homepage-field
> > > > > > > P: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: no-upstream-changelog
> > > > > > > -----
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > But I have a debian/source/lintian-overrides with this content:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > debian/source/lintian-overrides is not installed into the binary
> > > > > > package, so lintian cannot find it when scanning the .deb. You
want to
> > > > > > name it debian/kstars-data-extra-tycho2.lintian-overrides and
install it
> > > > > > with dh_lintian (requires debhelper >= 6.0.7).
> > > > >
> > > > > In a couple more words: the problem is, you (OP) are trying to make
a
> > > > > source override fix a lintian warning for the binary package. When
> > > > > Lintian gives a warning about a source package, it prefixes it with
> > > > > sourcepackagename source: ...
> > > > > And in your case, the warning is for the binary package, so it is:
> > > > > binarypackagename: ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Thus, the source overrides will not affect it; as Sven Joachim said,
> > > > > you need to provide a file that will be installed as part of the
binary
> > > > > package. You may install it into /usr/share/lintian/overrides/ "by
> > > > > hand", but it will be much easier to just drop a file named
> > > > > binarypackagename.lintian-overrides (well, in your case that is
> > > > > kstars-data-extra-tycho2.lintian-overrides) into the debian/
directory
> > > > > at package build time and invoke dh_lintian.
> > > > >
> > > > > G'luck,
> > > > > Peter
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks to both of you, Sven and Peter. It's my first time
> > > > with overrides and really didn't understand that from either the
> > > > man page nor http://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch2.html (but I
> > > > should). It is working perfectly now, and I will send the RFS in
> > > > a few hours.
> > >
> > > I couldn't work them out either.
> > > Perhaps now you/i/we know better we can make sure the lintian manual
> > > and or ment-guide, dev-ref or whatever are easier to understand? :)
> > > kk
> >
> > Sure.We can try to rewrite ch2.html during this week, to see if we
> > can do it better. Should this discussion be moved to
> > debian-doc@l.d.o ?
>
> It probably should be moved to the other list. I can't commit to
> rewriting stuff within a week (as you've probably noticed), but
> otherwise i'm happy to contribute.
> kk
Moving this to debian-doc to get the work done there about ch2 of
http://lintian.debian.org/manual
Noel
er Envite
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