Re: Can I override lintian's "bad distribution" error?
Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> writes:
> 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?
There isn't any way to specify a conventional override for a *.changes
file, since overrides live in files within the package, but for a
*.changes file, there's no "package."
What you can do instead is suppress the tag with:
--suppress-tags bad-distribution-in-changes-file
which is basically like overriding it.
There currently isn't a way to set this in a configuration file (but
there's an open bug requesting that capability). In the meantime, using a
shell alias to automatically add that flag when checking packages for your
local repository is probably the easiest way to go about it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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