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Re: Something wicked with overrides



On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:02:26PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> While comparing the output of a 1.23.0 and a 1.23.1 beta run I saw
> that 1.23.1 sometimes uses non-existant overrides (i.e. the package it
> self doesn't define overrides but lintian thinks, it does). We need to
> check that, but I don't have time right now, so this mail.
> 
> This doesn't occurs when checking the packages sepearatly so I guess
> when checking more than one package overrides are not cleaned up
> anymore. It's a clear regression bug.

P.S.: In addition it makes any statistical comparison of an old and a
new lintian.log rather painfull since it appears very, very often...

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/



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