Bug#661103: binaries-have-file-conflict not marked as experimental

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-02-24 09:19, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.5
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 

Hi,

Thanks for the report.

> I got these new warnings when checking a package (false positives, btw):
> 
> W: gnupg source: binaries-have-file-conflict gnupg gnupg-curl
> usr/lib/gnupg/gpgkeys_curl
> W: gnupg source: binaries-have-file-conflict gnupg gnupg-curl
> usr/lib/gnupg/gpgkeys_hkp
> 

By the looks of it, it FPs due to diverts.  I should clarify the
description to ask people to override if they are using diverts.  Or
even better, check for diverts.


> The tag description claims that these new tags are experimental, and they
> are also not mentioned as 'added tags' in the changelog. I therefore think
> they were mistakenly not classified as 'X' but was 'W'.
> 

Ah, lintian-info (and lintian -i) gets this wrong:

"""
Tag: binaries-have-file-conflict
Severity: normal
Certainty: possible
Experimental: no
"""

It should have been in the changelog (even if it had been experimental),
so that is (another) oversight of mine.  >.>

> 
> Cheers,
> Thijs
> 
> 
> 
> 

~Niels