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Re: Why lintian overrides shipped in (binary) debs?



On 2012-12-23 14:14 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:09:24PM +0200, Regid Ichira wrote:
>>   Isn't lintian meant to be used at build time?  Isn't it a sort of
>> post build depends?

You can use lintian at any time, on both source and binary packages.

>>   In that case, why lintian overrides are shipped in (binary) debs?

Because lintian checks the binary debs for errors/warnings.

> Please file a bug against the package concerned.

Erm no, shipping lintian overrides is not a bug per se.

Cheers,
       Sven


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