Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file

2011-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: With the upcoming changes to Lintian, we can process the changes file together with the source. So we should be able to pull the overrides for the changes from the source package. The question is how/where do we store them? Add a new file (e.g.

Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file

2011-04-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi With the upcoming changes to Lintian, we can process the changes file together with the source. So we should be able to pull the overrides for the changes from the source package. The question is how/where do we store them? Add a new file

Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Williams
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.4 Severity: wishlist When working with packages not intended for upload to Debian but used with internal repositories to create systems based on Debian, it is still useful to run lintian over the results of dpkg-buildpackage. Such configurations have non-standard

Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file

2010-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: When working with packages not intended for upload to Debian but used with internal repositories to create systems based on Debian, it is still useful to run lintian over the results of dpkg-buildpackage. Such configurations have non-standard suites

Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:25:51 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: There's really no way for Lintian to use information from the source package to override tags for the *.changes file. Those are two entirely separate objects to Lintian, and the *.changes file is parsed and tags emitted

Bug#575400: lintian does not allow overriding bad-distribution-in-changes-file

2010-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: The supported way of handling unwanted tags from the *.changes file is to suppress them from the command line: lintian --suppress-tags bad-distribution-in-changes-file Sounds like an alias is required . . .