Re: RFC on proposal for adequate(1) overrides

[Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>]

"Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <sez@debian.org> writes:

>> [proposal] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adequate/-/wikis/overrides

This should be https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adequate/-/wikis/proposals/overrides

Im not in any team, but i think it's a great idea, and a lintian-like
syntax seems very sensible.

I suggest that instead of --override-dirs, you take a 'systemd-like'
approach where overrides are read from all of
 /usr/adequate/<package> and
 /etc/adequate/<package>
 /run/adequate/<package>     (if you think it needed)
~/.config/adequate/<package> (if you think it needed)

--- i absolutely find from helping maintain system-checking tools
(chkrootkit, logcheck, etc) that many users do highly value being able
to hide the output, for all sorts of reasons (as well as 'false
positives' if you use stable, 'true positives' may not be 'fixed' for
years). Making the override reasonably flexible will save you bug
reports later, so i think it's right

Hope that is helpful