Bug#454790: lintian: bogus malformed-override warnings or documentation wrong
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.38
Severity: normal
I have a package with an override containing:
init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/apache2
The new lintian gives the following error:
E: apache2-mpm-worker: malformed-override init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/apache2
N:
N: Lintian discovered an override entry with an invalid format. An
N: override entry should have the format:
N:
N: [ ]: [ ...]
N:
N: where is the package name, the optional parameter specifies the
N: package type (binary is the default), is the tag to suppress, and is
N: any specific information for the particular tag to suppress.
N:
1) The help message is incomplete.
2) file:///usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/ch2.html#s2.4 says that the
package part is optional (including the colon) but lintian complains if it
is missing. Either lintian or the documentation needs to be fixed. I think
the package part being optional is good (I copy the same override file
into multiple packages), so lintian should be fixed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.12 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.5.0-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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