Re: Overrides in Package
Hi Glenn,
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 8:45 AM Coyot Linden (Glenn Glazer)
<coyot@lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
> We'd like to use overrides to cut down on the noise, but we see
> that the file lives in the /usr tree of the build host and well, we have
> developer boxen where we test builds, staging and production
> build hosts and so on. This means that we'd have to update all of
> those machines every time we wanted an override in some
> package or another.
I am trying to understand your issue better. When in the build process
do you run Lintian? Are you running Lintian on the *.deb files or on
the *.changes file after building? The overrides in /usr are for
installed packages.
> What we'd like to know is that if there is some way to specify an override
> from within the package tree itself
Why is the standard way of specifying overrides in packages [1] not working?
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#lintian
Kind regards,
Felix Lechner
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