Bug#772992: lintian: spurious unused-override tags emitted sometimes
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
Severity: normal
running lintian several times in sequence sometimes outputs spurious unused-override tags:
$ Lintian nvidia-graphics-drivers_340.65-1_amd64.changes
W: nvidia-detect: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/nvidia-detect
I: nvidia-driver: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
$ Lintian nvidia-graphics-drivers_340.65-1_amd64.changes
W: nvidia-detect: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/nvidia-detect
I: nvidia-driver: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
I: libnvidia-fbc1: unused-override non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink <==
$ Lintian nvidia-graphics-drivers_340.65-1_amd64.changes
W: nvidia-detect: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/nvidia-detect
I: nvidia-driver: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
I: libgles2-nvidia: unused-override spelling-error-in-binary <==
$ Lintian nvidia-graphics-drivers_340.65-1_amd64.changes
I: nvidia-driver: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
W: nvidia-detect: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/nvidia-detect
(Lintian is a wrapper around lintian -i -I -E -v --pedantic that saves
the full log to a logfile and reports it to stdout through grep -v ^N)
Andreas
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