Bug#878557: lintian: * matches too much?

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 05:41:12PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> see  https://lintian.debian.org/full/debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org.html#libreoffice_1_x3a5.4.2-3.
> 
> Search for libreoffice-wiki-publisher.
> 
> You'll see that all jar-in-usr-share tags are overriden. But the override says:
> 
> $ cat libreoffice-wiki-publisher.lintian-overrides 
> libreoffice-wiki-publisher: jar-not-in-usr-share usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/wiki-publisher/help/*/help.jar
> 
> That shouldn't match usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/wiki-publisher/mediawiki.jar
> but it apparently does..
> That one's not even under help where one could say * matched it :)

That said, my local lintian *does* say

W: libreoffice-wiki-publisher: jar-not-in-usr-share usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/wiki-publisher/mediawiki.jar

so maybe it's just a display issue in the web version?

Regards,

Rene