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Re: Lintian warnings on unknown field



On Thu, 2025-01-23 at 01:20 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> I know we are using Static-Built-Using similar to the Rust Team to track
> build dependencies of libraries, but it doesn't seem to be known to
> lintian. Is there a proposal to add this and eliminate the warning?

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/549

> In the mean time, it is worth it to add an override to hide it?

Not really, since it's a false positive in Lintian rather than an edge
case in the package.

> Even if it's not a good idea to add it to the source package, is there a
> config entry that could be added locally to tell lintiant to ignore
> unknown-field in the specific case of Static-Built-Using?

Not at the moment.

> And a minor note, are overrides ever added for info-level lints like
> spelling-error-in-binary?

No. (In fact, I opened an MR to lower it to pedantic since it always
gives out a ton of false positives).

-- 
Maytham Alsudany
Debian Maintainer

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