On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:25:51 -0700 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > There's really no way for Lintian to use information from the source > package to override tags for the *.changes file. Those are two entirely > separate "objects" to Lintian, and the *.changes file is parsed and tags > emitted for it before the source package is looked at. I suspected that from a cursory glance at the source code. > 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 . . . > 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? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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