Re: lintian not recognizing override file?
Hi Russ!
On Dec 17, 2007 5:30 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> > lintian (version 3.7.3) also says:
>
> (That's a Policy version rather than a lintian version.)
Argh... sorry.
I was thinking in one thing and I wrote another one :-/
> First, you're installing an override for the *binary* package xtermset to
> suppress configure-generated-file-in-source. But that's a source package
> tag that doesn't trigger for the binary package. Hence the I: tag about
> an unused override.
>
> Second, you're trying to suppress a warning in the source package rather
> than the binary package, which means that you need a source override. A
> source override must have the file name debian/source.lintian-overrides.
> This is documented at <http://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch2.html#s2.4>.
Hum... now I understand. Thank you very much for your attention!
Best regards,
Nelson
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