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Bug#995850: marked as done (lintian: more context is not always a good thing)

Your message dated Sun, 24 Oct 2021 03:01:51 -0700
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has caused the Debian Bug report #995850,
regarding lintian: more context is not always a good thing
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.107.0

Please reconsider changing and extending the context of various tags.

More specifically:

• debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri
  old context: the URI
  new context: the URI plus " (line 2)"

• typo-in-manual-page
  old context: file, space, old word, space, new word
  new context: file, space, "line ", line number, space, old word, space, new word

In both cases the old context made it perfectly usable to override
the specific instance as it was fully sufficient to find it. (I would
not, for example, want to override typo-in-manual-page for the entire
file, but the “ot” here is correct (“test file1 -ot file2”), and it
moves lines with releases and my time is better spent elsewhere than
on needless lintian override churn.)

So, please revert this change for these two tags at least, and consider
reviewing the other tags, specifically whether less context may actually
be enough to identify the issue in question, as is here, where the line
number, which is a more fragile identifier, is not needed.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
Yes, I hate users and I want them to suffer.
	-- Marco d'Itri on gmane.linux.debian.devel.general

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Hi,

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 6:21 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> wrote:
>
> mksh: typo-in-manual-page usr/share/man/man1/mksh.1.gz ot to *

I saw that override in version 59c-14 of the mksh package. [1] If you
are okay with it, I will close this bug for now.

Hugh's idea of lists probably does not make the management of
overrides easier (although it may help with their initial
composition). We hope to provide an interactive override adjuster
based on current Lintian results in the future.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/mksh/59c-14/debian/mksh.lintian-overrides/#L15

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