Bug#806504: lintian: malformed-override Cannot parse line 9: missing-dependency-on-libstdc++

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 + pending

Hi Andreas!

Thanks for the bug report.

* Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>, 2015-11-28, 06:17:
> I'd guess that lintian does not accept the '+' character in tags when 
> reading the overrides, resulting in this:
>
> E: nvidia-cuda-dev: malformed-override Cannot parse line 9: missing-dependency-on-libstdc++
> X: nvidia-cuda-dev: missing-dependency-on-libstdc++ needed by usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/stubs/libcublas.so and 10 others

Right. The regexp we currently use (in lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:546) for tag 
names is:

[\-\.a-zA-Z_0-9]+

So the "+" character was not allowed, making it impossible to override 
these tags:

missing-dependency-on-libstdc++
source-contains-autogenerated-visual-c++-file

I've committed fix for this bug.

> I'd prefer these tags to be emitted once for each occurence and not 
> grouped together with "and X others".

Sounds reasonable. Would you mind filing a separate bug about it?

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Jakub Wilk