Bug#457513: N: - lintian too noisy

[Sune Vuorela]

On Thursday 03 January 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
  When I add a override, I do not want to be bugged with it.  This setting
  might be reasonable when there is just 1 binary package - but most of my
  packages produces many binary packages, most got some kind of lintian
  override, so now it is quite some information.

 ...this is itself a problem.  Why do most of your packages have some sort
 of lintian override?  What tags are you having to override that this would
 be true?  Very few of my packages need lintian overrides.

Most of the overridesis related to putting different sonames in same package. 
At least when packaging kde, this quite often makes sense. Another group is 
due to weird upstream using of libraries called libkdeinit_*.so. And a 
thirg group is a app having a shared library currently only used by that 
app and stuffed in the same package as the app.

kdebase for example:
$ grep ^Package debian/control | wc --lines
35

$ ls debian/*.lintian | wc --lines
14

Having 14 packages in the same source package adding one or more lintian 
override is making N: actually quite verbose.


 I'll mail debian-devel about this.

Probably a nice idea.

/Sune



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Bug#457513: N: - lintian too noisy

[Sune Vuorela]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.41
Severity: normal


It seems that someone filed 452804 and it is now fixed. I really
disagree in that because I don't want to see output from lintian if
there is nothing interesting.
When I add a override, I do not want to be bugged with it.
This setting might be reasonable when there is just 1 binary package -
but most of my packages produces many binary packages, most got some
kind of lintian override, so now it is quite some information.

The very least thing to do is to add a --dont-show-useless-stuff switch
- but I would prefer that the N: stuff wasn't on by default.

/Sune

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-vserver-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat1.45-2   produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev1.14.11  package building tools for Debian
ii  file4.21-3   Determines file type using magic
ii  gettext 0.16.1-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1  parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1Manipulates and accesses URI strin
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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