Bug#965363: Fwd: Bug#965363: RFS: opencpn/5.2.0+dfsg-1 [RC] -- Open Source Chartplotter and Marine GPS Navigation Software
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 11:19:33PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:27:24 +0200 Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 02:50:43PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 01:23:41PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:
> >
> > > So far for now…
> >
> > More stuff. Lintian this time.
> >
> > - Lintian overrides
> > Lintian overrides should only be used if Lintian is wrong, not to silence problems
> > (even if the problems are not actionable right now, like patches not yet forwarded)
> > So time to clean those up…
>
> What does "being wrong" mean in this context? Just false positives? Or
> also situations like the get-orig-source or "there is no checksums"?
false positives. For example the mispelling message is on of those that
can be silenced.
The gpg signature messge is a good counter example: If there is no signature,
don't silence it.
> > As a bonus, after cleaning those will be fixed:
> > E: opencpn source: malformed-override Unknown tag testsuite-autopkgtest-missing in line 2
>
> I have been a too lazy human being and not not updated my sid host.
> After doing so I see the same messages as you. This helps, but see my
> question above.
You should looking into setting up sbuild, pbuilder or some of that kind tools:
This will allow you to build in a clean enviornment without the need to have
always sid on your machine. Also it eliminates the "dirty build env" problem we
often see here.
>
>
> Cheers!
> --alec
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