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Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?



Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> writes:
> Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb:

>> I'm packaging something with has an installable file called
>> License.hi which is not a license file, but gets caught by the
>> extra-license-file lintian warning.

>> I can add a pkgname.lintian-override file, but the path in the
>> override file has the package version number embedded in it.

>> Is there some way I can autogenerate this lintian-override file?
>
> Yes, as stated in the last answers.
>
> But you may also report it against the lintian package as false
> positive.

What *is* the content of the file?  In other words, more fundamentally,
why is it there and what does it do?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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