Bug#823742: RFS: hdf-compass/0.6.0b5-1 [ITP]
Mattia,
On 15 May 2016 at 16:24, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> wrote:
> * d/hdf-compass.lintian-overrides
> + bad habit doing lintian overrides without a comment. But I can't
> imagine a reason to override binary-without-manpage. That one just
> needs fixing, and hiding it behind an override doesn't help it.
>
> (...)
>
> FTR, what I veto against is the override for binary-without-manpage,
> that IMHO is plain wrong, even if I know several others DDs who are ok
> with that).
There's one use case I can think of where overriding a
"binary-without-manpage" is fine: if the executable isn't supposed to
be used by the end-user, only as an external command called from the
application itself. I had to do this with "pythonpy"[1], as it uses an
executable called "pycompleter" to provide its bash-completion
feature.
Can't say if this is what is happening here, as I didn't reviewed the
package. Anyway, I guess worth mentioning this kind of corner cases as
an exception for a rule.
Regards,
Tiago.
[1]: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pythonpy.git/tree/debian/pythonpy.lintian-overrides?id=308b0f2
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