Bug#909319: Show unnecessary overrides
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:04:37PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:58 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It's been that way since at least lintian 1.23 (April 2004) according
> to git, so I imagine no-one remembers specifically why.
Would there be any objection to upgrading it to a warning (not an error,
just a warning)?
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