On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 08:46:11AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Overrides. Packages can now specify overrides locally. Lintian will look > > for a file named override.Lintian in the /usr/share/doc/<package> > > directory. > > Is this file really needed in such a prominent place? It's seen by > every user, who looks for documentation for the package. There are > other files like .dhelp which keep some debian specific administrative > stuff and are "invisible". Or move it to /var/lib/dpkg/info/. .dhelp is unknown and there was violent objections to putting it in a place where dpkg would collect it (like the DEBIAN control tarball of the deb). If -policy wants to come up with an official place for it... (or, more generally, value-added packaging information files) I can move it. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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