Bug#454723: false positive: perl-package-should-be-section-perl dh-make-perl

[Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.38
Severity: normal

Hi,

Lintian reports the following on dh-make-perl:

 W: dh-make-perl: perl-package-should-be-section-perl dh-make-perl
 N:
 N:   This package has a name suggest that it is Perl-based, so it should be
 N:   in section "perl".
 N:

dh-make-perl is similar to dh-make, but creates packages from Perl
modules. Currently it uses "Section: devel".

I am unsure if
 a) an override is in order; or
 b) lintian should "whitelist" dh-make-perl for this check; or
 c) lintian should check only for packages named lib*-perl

Please close the bug it you suggest an override.


Thanks,
    dam

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.12              package building tools for Debian
ii  file                4.21-3               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.16.1-2             GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db              2.5.0-4              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12             Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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