Re: Override paths for the very latest lintian.

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 23:59, Mats Erik Andersson
<mats.andersson@gisladisker.se> wrote:
> This potentially could make fairly many override instances
> inapplicable for present day packaging, so I hope to hear
> an initiated voice here, stating that the new behaviour is
> intended. I am not able to get the altered behaviour verified
> in the changelog of lintian, so I send this message instead.

Please have a look at: 201102232247.30644.geissert@debian.org
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/02/msg00009.html


The change in question seems to be in version 2.5.0~rc1 btw:
    + [NT] All checks now report files without any "./" or "/" prefix.
      This may break existing overrides.  (Closes: #534940)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies