On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 07:44:05PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:40 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > It no longer triggers that tag as of lintian 2.5.104, which allows > > metapackages to depend on toolchain packages. > > Right, sorry, I missed that the stretch-backports package is lagging a > little. > > However, running from a current lintian git checkout gives: > > adam@jacala:~/code/debian/lintian$ ./frontend/lintian -I -E --pedantic > --show-overrides ../../josh-meta/target/josh-dev_77_all.debĀ > P: josh-dev: copyright-refers-to-symlink-license usr/share/common-licenses/GPL > I: josh-dev: unused-override binary-package-depends-on-toolchain-package > > which looks like exactly what was expected?
...argh. unused-override is *info*-level? That explains why I didn't see it by default, but is there any particular reason for that?