Hi Andreas,

On Sunday 04 May 2008 00:34, you wrote:
> Nice feature request.  When writing cdd-dev I had the same policy as
> debhelper in mind which does intentionally not provide
> dh_installlintianoverrides (or something like that - I remember a bug about
> this, but I'm to tired now to verify the bug number). 

Me too, but I'd like to know :)

> But I agree that we 
> might perhaps add such a feature to cdd-dev.  On the other hand we need a
> means to ensure that the overrides will be put into the right meta package.

Sure. But knowing Joey Hess, I doubt that was the reason :)

>  This will probably not work with the corrent lintian.override in the
> debian-edu source.

I think it will, using approach 3:

> I see three chances:
>     2. Use separate override files and use a naming sheme like
> <task>.override. 

Why use 10 files when you can use 1?

> 3. Grep the single lintian.override file for 
> metapackage-names and put the relevant entry into the according meta
> package.

I'd suggest to do this.


regards,
        Holger

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