incorrect use of Lintian overrides

Bug #72826 reported by Colin Watson
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
prevu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Albin Tonnerre

Bug Description

$ dpkg --fsys-tarfile prevu_0.4.1bzr46-0ubuntu1_all.deb | tar xO ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/prevu
prevu: binary-without-manpage prevu
prevu: binary-without-manpage prevu-chroot
prevu: binary-without-manpage prevu-init
prevu: binary-without-manpage prevu-update

Lintian overrides are not supposed to be used this way. You should only override a Lintian message when the message is incorrect, but is not a bug in Lintian (i.e. your package is a special case of some kind which isn't worth encoding in Lintian). Overriding correct messages this way makes it harder to scan packages for problems. Please remove these overrides and just put up with the warnings until you've written man pages.

Related branches

Albin Tonnerre (lutin)
Changed in prevu:
assignee: nobody → lutin
Changed in prevu:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
Albin Tonnerre (lutin)
Changed in prevu:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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