On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 06:59:19PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Or those who screw up and add it to a non-orig .orig.tar.gz (and by that I > >> do NOT mean a modified upstream one, I mean a re-generated tarball during > >> build because someone screwed up). > >> > >> 99.9% of the time, one just ignores these lintian warnings as one knows it > >> comes from the upstream tarball. > > > > I'd rather not have warnings that must be ignored 99.9% of the time. > > You could add a lintian override.
Lintian overrides should only be used when a package is an exception to an otherwise-generally-applicable Lintian message, not when the Lintian message is basically wrong and should be removed. In this case, I completely agree that the warning is bogus; it might be less so if it were modified to check that the CVS directories are in the .diff.gz rather than just somewhere in the unpacked source. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]