Hi Marc, On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 4:33 AM Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > > I wondering whether the missing leading backslash in the path is > correct.
You probably meant a regular slash, and not a backslash. Lintian has used such relative-looking path names since before it found me. The only exception I know of is the hint annotation, which is usually taken verbatim from your code. It can include leading slashes (for conffiles, for example, which are absolute). The path you asked about is part of a pointed hint. It includes file information that will soon be a live link on our website. [1] Those paths are taken straight from Lintian's in-memory copy of the file index. [2] [1] https://bugs.debian.org/743226 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Index.pm#L393-396 > debian/sudo-ldap.lintian-overrides:sudo-ldap: > python3-script-but-no-python3-dep /usr/bin/python3 > [usr/share/apport/package-hooks/*] Our Git version already moved past your 2.114.0 with respect to override treatments. We now allow globbing patterns [3] using Text::Glob. [4] Unfortunately, the square bracket I recently selected for file pointers is cumbersome to escape. The backslash \[ does not work, while [[] (from bash) and the question mark ? both work. You could leave out the ending ] or use the even more awkward-looking []]. None of that is great for users. Overrides are currently in flux. Maybe overrides should be in a more capable format, such as Deb822. In your case, that would probably look something like: Tag: python3-script-but-no-python3-dep Note: /usr/bin/python3 Pointer: usr/share/apport/package-hooks/* Perhaps I should also add a tool for users to generate or modify overrides interactively. I have used something similar for years in Lintian's test suite to recalibrate tests for sweeping changes. Kind regards Felix Lechner [3] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/139009d5a54225ebff4509ec37b979cb898c17fe [4] https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Glob
