On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 11:19:33PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:27:24 +0200 Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 02:50:43PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 01:23:41PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > > > > > So far for now… > > > > More stuff. Lintian this time. > > > > - Lintian overrides > > Lintian overrides should only be used if Lintian is wrong, not to silence > > problems > > (even if the problems are not actionable right now, like patches not yet > > forwarded) > > So time to clean those up… > > What does "being wrong" mean in this context? Just false positives? Or > also situations like the get-orig-source or "there is no checksums"?
false positives. For example the mispelling message is on of those that can be silenced. The gpg signature messge is a good counter example: If there is no signature, don't silence it. > > As a bonus, after cleaning those will be fixed: > > E: opencpn source: malformed-override Unknown tag > > testsuite-autopkgtest-missing in line 2 > > I have been a too lazy human being and not not updated my sid host. > After doing so I see the same messages as you. This helps, but see my > question above. You should looking into setting up sbuild, pbuilder or some of that kind tools: This will allow you to build in a clean enviornment without the need to have always sid on your machine. Also it eliminates the "dirty build env" problem we often see here. > > > Cheers! > --alec
