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Re: Lintian questions



"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 18:43 +0000, Anton Piatek wrote:

>> Can lintian have a system-wide overrides file? linda supported extra
>> overrides in a system-wide manner, and I was hoping to be able to do
>> the same 

> No. When checking a package, lintian extracts the override files from
> the package itself and uses those; any override files present on the
> system are ignored.

It would be nice to change this, as it's a fairly useful feature for
special setups like private repositories.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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