Bug#950052: please warn for files installed into <dir>/<dir>

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Chris,

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:15 AM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>
> the
> severity level is too high.

I agree. The severity was reduced to pedantic.

As for the actual occurrence of the tag in Lintian, we have three options:

1. Install an override. This is my favorite. The tag was not triggered
by the test suite in the source but is a genuine occurrence in our
shipped product. The path segment repeats because our checks mirror
Debian's ecosystem and infrastructure, including Lintian. In my mind,
the is tag is real and should be overridden.

2. Alternatively, we could move the checks to d/lintian-overrides. The
name is equally acceptable and would side-step the tag, but the path
names become longer. That makes them less convenient. The change
affects the tests, too. This is my second favorite option.

3. Programmatically exclude Lintian. Many of our self-exemptions will
soon disappear. Lintian's test cases, which a are a major cause for
the exemptions, will be excluded from source checks by a different
mechanism. The tag at hand, however, is an installation matter and
indicates a different kind of issue.

Adding more exemptions for Lintian may also trigger image problems for
us. I have been ridiculed for exempting Lintian from its own tags,
which the correspondent perceived as equally overbearing on his own
package.

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner