On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 02:49:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I realised that lintian (at least) starting with version 2.115.1 (may be > earlier) wraps file names into [] which breaks existing > lintian-overrides. Random example: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/biomaj3-user/-/blob/master/debian/lintian-overrides > > now becomes invalid by lintian claiming > > W: python3-biomaj3-user: mismatched-override script-with-language-extension > usr/bin/biomaj-users.py [usr/share/lintian/overrides/python3-biomaj3-user:2] > W: python3-biomaj3-user: script-with-language-extension > [usr/bin/biomaj-users.py] > > I consider these [] not helpful since it breaks lots of > lintian-overrides with no visible advantage. Could this change in > lintian please be reverted?
Or perhaps make the new format default (I quite like it better from a visual perspective), and issue a deprecation warning for the old format (e.g., when -I is specified). Then perhaps after the next stable release drop the old format. > > Thanks a lot for maintaining lintian in any case > +1 Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
