To override or not to override?

2016-01-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org>, 2016-01-15, 15:55: lintian is wrong in this case, so there is no need to override it. Um, no; on the contrary, Lintian being wrong is the only legitimate reason to add an override. Here's how one should deal with Lintian tags:

Re: To override or not to override?

2016-01-15 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 04:29:07PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org>, 2016-01-15, 15:55: > >lintian is wrong in this case, so there is no need to override it. > > Um, no; on the contrary, Lintian being wrong is the only legit

Re: To override or not to override?

2016-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
so that you can remove them. That should make it safer to add an override for a Lintian bug, since when the bug is fixed, Lintian will tell you that you can remove it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>