Bug#909319: Show unnecessary overrides
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:
> While I do think unused-override makes sense as a warning, here's an
> alternative that would have worked for the issue I ran into:
> Could Lintian's summary line mention unused overrides?
> The line that says:
> N: 1 tag overridden (1 error)
> could say:
> N: 1 tag overridden (1 error); 1 unnecessary override
> That would have called attention to the issue, without necessarily
> emitting an actual warning.
> Does that seem reasonable?
That seems reasonable to me, although I'm also curious why you don't want
to run Lintian with info enabled if you care about this sort of thing. Or
is this about the default view in the package tracker?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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