Bug#817068: Wildcard in overrides no longer appears to work mid-string

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Hi Thomas!

* Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, 2016-03-07, 21:07:
> Trying to overrides some source-is-missing false-positives in package 
> rkward, I note that wildcard matching no longer appears to work at 
> start or mid of string. I'm trying to override source is missing for
>
>  E: rkward source: source-is-missing rkward/plugins/plots/box_plot.js
>  line length is 257 characters (>256)
>  E: rkward source: source-is-missing
>  rkward/plugins/analysis/power/Poweranalysis.js line length is 538
>  characters (>512)
>
> (Note: The heuristics underlying source-is-missing have seen a number 
> of changes, apparently. Other versions have been flagging more .js 
> files in rkward).
>
> I would expect the following three override variants to all do the 
> trick, but only variant 3 overrides, successfully:
>
> 1)
> rkward source: source-is-missing *.js
> 2)
> rkward source: source-is-missing rkward/plugins/*.js
> 3)
> rkward source: source-is-missing rkward/plugins/*
>
> Variant 2 used to work with some earlier version of lintian, current 
> around December 2015. I never used Variant 1 except for testing.

The tag info doesn't end with ".js", but with "line length is $X 
characters (>$Y)"; so it's not surprising that the first two variants 
don't work.

That said, I don't think this "line length ..." part is helpful to 
users, so I'd be in favor of removing it.

--
Jakub Wilk