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