Re: Bug#183453: e2fsprogs-bf: Please provide a lintian override for man pages
Yann Dirson schrieb am Wednesday, den 05. March 2003:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:06:06PM -0800, Micah Anderson wrote:
> > http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html is generated based on the regular
> > lintian reports at http://lintian.debian.org/. Listed on this page are
> > all the manpages that normally would accompany e2fsprogs-bf. However,
> > the man pages have been removed from this package because the package
> > is intended to be used on a floppy, so anything extra goes. The
> > lintian report gives an error, but this is a lintian false positive.
> >
> > If you were to add a lintian override for this error, it would
> > disappear from the QA web pages automatically. Simply add one by
> > supplying a /usr/share/llintian/overrides/e2fsprogs-bf file as
> > detailed in http://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch2.html#s2.4
>
> Since it's a generic rule that "*-bf" packages should not contain
> manpages, I'm of the opinion that a new rule should be added to
> lintian, rather than adding overrides to all *-bf packages.
I was under the impression, based on an email on another list
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200303/msg00001.html)
which was suggested, "This is a lintian false positive, and probably one
that can't be worked around in lintian" that this would not be possible in
lintian.
I have CC'd the lintian-maintainer to see if it is possible.
> Further more, since I don't think the new debian-installer is using
> those *-bf packages, but uses udeb's instead, those *-bf packages may
> be completely obsolete already.
>
> Did you discuss the issue first with the lintian maintainer and the bf
> team ?
I have included the debian-boot list on this email as well to see if we can
get resolution on if the *-bf packages are completely obsolete or not.
Thanks!
Micah
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