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Bug#452804: Please add a summary of errors/warnings suppressed by overrides



Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: N/A
> Severity: wishlist
>
> It would be really useful if lintian could count the errors and
> warnings that have been suppressed by the use of overrides, then
> provide a summary when finished. This would help sponsors find errors
> that may have been mistakenly over-ridden in packages they are
> checking, for example.
>
> I'll try and supply a patch if that helps... :-)

I assume --show-overrides isn't quite what you mean?  Could you give an
example of the sort of thing you're looking for?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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