Re: reporting lintian and linda overrides
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:45:10AM -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote:
> One of my packages, (faqomatic) has a two non-standard directory
> permissions, (0755:www-data/www-data on /var/lib/fom and
> /var/lib/fom/meta) as they must be writable by the websever process.
>
> I was thinking about an override, (linda complains) and my sponsor
> pointed out that he thought he recalled that overrides should be
> reported. I wasn't able to find any mention of this so I was hoping
> for some insight from the list.
You don't need to report them anywhere, you can do the overriding
yourself. For lintian, see [1] on how to do that.
Hm, I notice the docs tell you to actually contact lintian authors,
well, I think it's overkill almost all the time, only if you're in doubt
whether it's a bug in lintian or whether you should override (or maybe
your package _is_ doing something wrong), it makes sense to send a mail.
I'll adjust the documentation for the next lintian version.
--Jeroen
[1] http://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch2.html#s2.4
or file:///usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/ch2.html#s2.4
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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