Bug#909319: Show unnecessary overrides
Control: retitle -1 Please count "unnecessary overrides" in summary line
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:12:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
I probably should. But at the same time, *any* time I have to configure
a tool to use something other than the defaults, I try to figure out if
there's a better default first. :)
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