Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

To: 995850@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing
From: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:28:30 -0700
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Hi,

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 3:33 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I’ve not yet tested ...
> whether the asterisk indeed allows anything to come after,
> i.e. “line * ot to” isn’t equivalent to “line *”…

I am not sure it's a good feature, but it should work. [1][2]

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Processable/Overrides.pm#L278
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Group.pm#L374

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