Hi, First of all, thanks for writing and maintaining lintian! :) Now, I've got a somewhat uncommon (I think) usecase. We're developing a couple of software packages in-house, and also making modifications to some others that are already in Debian. We have an internal package repository with two distributions, "hoster-lenny" and "hoster-etch", for keeping track of our packages for the various servers. Yes, I know that I could try to set this up using the Suite tag somehow, but IMHO a new distribution is the easiest way. So, in our local setup, "hoster-lenny" is a legitimate backports-like distribution. Now, as you may guess, when I target a package at it, lintian is not too happy - and either I'm being particularly obtuse today and just can't happen to hit on the right override syntax, or... well, okay, so *is* there a way to specify an override for the "bad-distribution-in-changes-file" tag? I have the following in debian/hoster-scripts.lintian-overrides: hoster-scripts: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/log-pruner hoster-scripts: non-standard-file-perm bad-distribution-in-changes-file hoster-scripts: bad-distribution-in-changes-file binary: bad-distribution-in-changes-file hoster-scripts_0.14-1~hosterbp50+1_i386.changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file ...and also the following in debian/source/lintian-overrides: binary: bad-distribution-in-changes-file source: bad-distribution-in-changes-file hoster-scripts: bad-distribution-in-changes-file bad-distribution-in-changes-file ...and none of the "distribution" overrides is being picked up! Yes, I have a couple of "unused override" warnings, but this keeps popping up: E: hoster-scripts_0.14-1~hosterbp50+1_i386.changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file hoster-lenny So... *can* I override this error, or are overrides supposed to be for warnings only? If that's the case, then I might try my hand at writing a little something to teach lintian about local distributions, since the way I see it, right now the list of distributions is very much hardcoded. Or maybe that would not be a very good idea, since it would lead others to override the distribution list in cases when this is really not desirable? If that is so, I could live with this pesky lintian error at every build :) Once again, thanks for taking care of lintian, and please don't take this as some kind of whining or grumbling, it's just that I'm looking for a way to get around a minor annoyance - if a lintian error might be called that ;) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@space.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 This sentence every third, but it still comprehensible.
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