Bug#474590: [frontend] add a parsable reason for overrides and optionally require it
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> The implementation of #512901 is still a bit tricky because the comments
> need to be made available next to the overridden tags when
> --show-overrides is used so that reporting/harness sees them. Russ or
> anyone else: is there any suggestion on what letter to use to indicate
> that they are comments? "C"? another possibility would be to print them
> as "N" with some sort of format that harness could identify and parse.
>
> Suggestions? Comments?
I think using N: with some special marker is the best idea, but that's
only a tentative opinion and I could be convinced otherwise.
The rest of your idea seems quite sound to me.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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