Bug#253884: lintian: override matching should be allowed partially too
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:15:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yeah, I'm not sure we need anything other than * as a wildcard. I would
> tend to start doing matching on the extra info if it's provided. I think
> right now we ignore the extra-info section of an override entirely, don't
> we? I looked at that once and then confused myself.
No, the logic right now goes like this:
* overrides without any extra info override all occourences of the tag
* overrides with extra info only override occourences of the tag with
exactly the same extra info
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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