Bug#454790: lintian: bogus malformed-override warnings and documentation inconsistent with help message

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

found 454790 1.23.41
thanks

Hi,

this is not yet fixed. Lintian seems to ignore overrides with extra 
info. I get this output with the attached override file:

E: apache2-mpm-worker: malformed-override apache2-mpm-worker: 
init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/apache2
E: apache2-mpm-worker: malformed-override apache2-mpm-worker: 
init.d-script-not-included-in-package /etc/init.d/apache2
E: apache2-mpm-worker: malformed-override apache2-mpm-worker: 
postrm-does-not-call-updaterc.d-for-init.d-script /etc/init.d/apache2
E: apache2-mpm-worker: 
postrm-does-not-call-updaterc.d-for-init.d-script /etc/init.d/apache2
W: apache2-mpm-worker: 
init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/apache2
E: apache2-mpm-worker: 
init.d-script-not-included-in-package /etc/init.d/apache2
N: apache2-mpm-worker_2.2.6-4_i386.deb overrode 1 warning

I thought this worked in 1.23.39 but I am not really sure now whether 
I really tested it.


Also, the documentation and the help message are still not consistent.
lintian -i gives:

<package>[ <type>]: <tag>[ <extra> ...]

file:///usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/ch2.html#s2.4 has:

[<package>[ <type>]: ]<lintian-tag>[ <lintian-info>]

So it is not clear whether the "package:" is optional.

Cheers,
Stefan

apache2-mpm-worker: init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/apache2
apache2-mpm-worker: init.d-script-not-included-in-package /etc/init.d/apache2
apache2-mpm-worker: postrm-does-not-call-updaterc.d-for-init.d-script /etc/init.d/apache2
apache2-mpm-worker: binary-without-manpage usr/sbin/apache2