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Bug#683596: lintian: False positive "unused-override" when checking multiple packages with lintian



Hey Niels,

> I have been thinking about this some more and I have come to the
> conclusion that we cannot ensure packages are Lintian clean in "both
> use-cases".  For many checks, we might be able to do it, but there are
> some where the output associated with the check depends on the packages
> involved in the check.
> 
> Take "intra-source-package-circular-dependency" as an example.  And that
> (in theory) gets even more "fun" if you start processing binaries from
> multiple architectures together (like we do on lintian.d.o).  So at this
> time, I am going to say "cantfix" to this.
Makes sense. Thanks for considering, though :-)

Gr.

Matthijs

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