Bug#454790: lintian: bogus malformed-override warnings and documentation inconsistent with help message
Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> writes:
> On Sunday 30 December 2007, you wrote:
>> this is not yet fixed. Lintian seems to ignore overrides with extra
>> info. I get this output with the attached override file:
>
> Actually, the problem is that lintian ignores overrides entries where
> the tag contains a ., because this line
>
> if ($override eq '' or $override !~ /^[\w0-9-]+(\s+.*)?$/) {
>
> does not allow for a . in the tag (\w is [a-zA-Z0-9_] ). Adding a dot
> in the regexp fixes the problem.
Thanks. We used rather more characters for tags than I'd thought. I'll
fix this in the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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