Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:30:45AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Package: debian-policy,
>
> I'm not sure quite what package to submit this under, but I think we
> have a problem.
>
> Current arrangements are that you can't upload new packages which have
> lintian errors. I don't think this is correct, because packages which
> have lintian errors might still be an asset to the distribution.
Local overrides can be placed in:
/usr/share/doc/$pkg/override.Lintian
It was announced on -devel-announce, although I don't think it's yet
documented in the lintian docs.
Julian
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