Bug#261435: manual: Example for source package override is wrong
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hello
It took me a while to figure out why my overrides do not work. I don't
know if lintian or the docs are wrong but adjusting the docs is
sufficient in this case.
bye,
-christian-
--- doc/lintian.sgml.orig 2004-07-26 01:37:14.000000000 +0200
+++ doc/lintian.sgml 2004-07-26 01:39:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -452,7 +452,8 @@
is one of <tt>binary</tt>, <tt>udeb</tt> and <tt>source</tt>, and
<tt><lintian-info></tt> is all additional information provided
by Lintian except for the tag. (lintian-info is optional, type can
-be omitted if it is <tt>binary</tt>).
+be omitted if it is <tt>binary</tt>, package and type have to be omitted
+if it is a <tt>source</tt> package).
An example file for a binary package would look like:
<example>
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/foo, where foo is the name of your package
@@ -465,8 +466,8 @@
An example file for a source package would look like:
<example>
debian/source.lintian-overrides in your base source directory
-foo source: debian-files-list-in-source
-foo source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.cache
+debian-files-list-in-source
+configure-generated-file-in-source config.cache
</example>
<p>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux app109 2.6.5-app109-4 #1 Sat May 8 23:08:00 CEST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (ignored: LC_ALL set)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.34-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 4.09-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.1-5 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii man-db 2.4.2-19 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- no debconf information
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