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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:

> With the upcoming changes to Lintian, we can process the changes file
> together with the source.  So we should be able to pull the overrides
> for the changes from the source package.

> The question is how/where do we store them? Add a new file (e.g.
> d/source/changes.lintian-overrides) or perhaps inside the source
> overrides (probably requires modification to the override loading code
> to work)?

I think the best solution to this bug is to just allow overriding of
specific tags on the command line (using the same syntax as an override
file).  That's how I was going to fix it.

Using the source package to provide overrides for the *.changes file is an
interesting idea, but it doesn't quite feel right to me.  The *.changes
file is *usually* generated from a source package, but it doesn't have to
be and exists as its own separate, independent thing.  Binary builds, for
example, will have no source package but will still have a *.changes file
on which it's reasonable to run Lintian.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>