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

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 10:55, Casper Gielen wrote:
> 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.

That's correct.  "new-package-should-close-itp-bug" is a tag issued for
*binary* packages, not source packages, so it needs to be in the binary
override file.

fwiw, the fact that the lintian output doesn't contain "source:" is also a
give away :-)

Regards,

Adam