Bug#626256: debian/source.lintian-overrides not recognized

[Casper Gielen <C.Gielen@uvt.nl>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc3
Severity: minor


The lintian manual appears to be off. Sectoin 2.4 on Overrides states:

"If the override is for a source package, you have to place it at
debian/source/lintian-overrides or debian/source.lintian-overrides (the
former path is preferred)."

Unfortunately the overrides are not used when the file is named
'debian/source.lintian-overrides' . It is recognized when it is named
'debian/lintian-overrides'.

~/check-dnssec_0.1$ mv debian/lintian-overrides debian/source.lintian-overrides
~/check-dnssec_0.1$ DH_VERBOSE=1 debuild -uc -us -rfakeroot | tail -n 3
Now running lintian...
W: check-dnssec: new-package-should-close-itp-bug
Finished running lintian.

~/check-dnssec_0.1$ mv debian/source.lintian-overrides debian/lintian-overrides
~/check-dnssec_0.1$ DH_VERBOSE=1 debuild -uc -us -rfakeroot | tail -n 3
Now running lintian...
N: 1 tag overridden (1 warning)
Finished running lintian.


The example in that secttion also mentions 'debian/source.lintian-overrides'.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to nl_NL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.21.51.20110421-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.54-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.16.0.2           Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.04-5+b1          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.18.1.1-3         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24+b1          Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1             Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libemail-valid-perl   0.184-1            Perl module for checking the valid
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.89-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.2000-1           collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl           1.58-1             module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales               2.11.2-13          Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                2.6.0.2-1          on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.1-20          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                 6.0-4              De-archiver for .zip files

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libhtml-parser-perl           3.68-1     collection of modules that parse H
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.6.0.2-1  on-line manual pager

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