Bug#909319: Show unnecessary overrides
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 07:44:05PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:40 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > It no longer triggers that tag as of lintian 2.5.104, which allows
> > metapackages to depend on toolchain packages.
>
> Right, sorry, I missed that the stretch-backports package is lagging a
> little.
>
> However, running from a current lintian git checkout gives:
>
> adam@jacala:~/code/debian/lintian$ ./frontend/lintian -I -E --pedantic --show-overrides ../../josh-meta/target/josh-dev_77_all.deb
> P: josh-dev: copyright-refers-to-symlink-license usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
> I: josh-dev: unused-override binary-package-depends-on-toolchain-package
>
> which looks like exactly what was expected?
...argh. unused-override is *info*-level?
That explains why I didn't see it by default, but is there any
particular reason for that?
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