Bug#454790: lintian: bogus malformed-override warnings or documentation wrong
Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> writes:
> 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:
[...]
> 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.
Yeah, I misread the code when I was implementing this. Will be fixed in
the next release. Sorry about that.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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