Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes:

> We have the lintian profile system that enables you to process packages
> in a different context than "debian" (e.g. "ubuntu" or your own personal
> context).  The profiles can enable / disable tags (or even change
> severity of the tags).

> However, we cannot guess which profile you want based on the package.
> Partly, because we select the profile first and then process the
> package.  Partly, because (as I recall) we do not have a reliable
> indicator of which "derivative" the package is targeting.  In the best
> case, we only have the "distribution", but e.g. "jessie" is used both by
> Debian but also third-parties (a notably Devuan, but ISVs may also have
> their own repositories that mirror the Debian release that they match).

Yeah, profiles would definitely work.  I wonder if it would make sense to
have a file in debian/source that indicates the profile in some way?

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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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