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Bug#459851: lintian: outputs wrong total count of overrides



On 11/01/2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hm, or we could list the total including info tags and only mention
> the info overrides explicitly if -I is given.  So without -I, you'd
> get something like:
> 
> N: 2 overrides (1 warning)
> 
> That probably wouldn't be any less confusing, though.

Indeed…

> I'd like to ahve the total remain, so maybe we should just always list
> the info total as well, whether -I is included or not.
> 
> N: 2 overrides (1 warning, 1 info)

That sounds way better to me. Having “N info” doesn't hurt much IMHO.

> (Completely separately, I'm really questioning the utility of the two
> tags you're overriding, particularly the info tag, and they may just
> go away or be significantly modified in a later version of lintian.)

I guess they might be useful when one starts maintaining a library,
without having too much knowledge about what packaging libraries means.
I must confess that I didn't take the time to check whether such a bug
against lintian was open, since I had lots to do with graphviz already;
sorry about that.

-- 
Cyril Brulebois

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