Re: Fwd: warzone2100_4.5.5-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Fabian Grünbichler <lists@fabian.gruenbichler.email>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025, at 4:40 PM, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 02:02:51AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
>> How do I specify an override file that works for this?  When I have a file 
>> debian/source/lintian-overrides which works for lintian -c but doesn't work 
>> for uploading the package.
>> 
>> warzone2100 source: lintian output: 'license-problem-json-evil 3rdparty/
>> discord-rpc/thirdparty/rapidjson/license.txt', automatically rejected package.
>> warzone2100 source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian 
>> tag.
>
> Your overrides file is for lintian that understands [] and the autorejects
> are generated by the one that doesn't (compare the messages).
>
> Unfortunately I don't remember which ugly hack you are supposed to do to
> make this work.

you basically either provide both variants of the override (which will in turn always warn about either of them being wrong ;)) or you adapt the override with wildcards to match both old and new output and hopefully not too much else..