Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file
Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> The supported way of handling unwanted tags from the *.changes file is to
>> suppress them from the command line:
>>
>> lintian --suppress-tags bad-distribution-in-changes-file
> Sounds like an alias is required . . .
For the time being, indeed.
>> which will accomplish functionally the same thing as an override.
>> There's an open bug to allow one to put things like that into a
>> configuration file, which is definitely something we want to support
>> going forward.
>> Does that sound like a reasonable solution to you?
> Yes, feel free to merge this bug report into the bug seeking a
> per-system configuration file. Is that the support where a package can
> drop in a config file into a lintian/overrrides.d/ type directory?
No, it's not an override. It would be support for adding that option (or
any other Lintian command-line option) to /etc/lintianrc or ~/.lintianrc.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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