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Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file



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? 

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