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

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

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.