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thoni56
Asked: 2016-08-11 22:09:17 +0800 CST

Why doesn't my <package>.lintian-overrides work?

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I'm packaging cgreen for Ubuntu working currently on 15.10 and in my debian directory I've created cgreen.lintian-overrides as per the lintian manual and the New Maintainers Guide. It has this content:

cgreen binary : non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink *
cgreen binary : package-name-doesnt-match-sonames *

(I've tried many variations of this...)

When I run debuild, or just lintian I still get those warnings. lintian -d does not indicate that it has found any overrides, but the debug message says "if there where any", so to me it is unclear if it found and read my file or if there is some format error.

There was some indication that profiles could set some tags to non-overrideable, but I've inspected the profiles in /usr/share/lintian/profiles/ubuntu and the tags in my override does not seem to be disabled there.

Why does not lintian respect my overrides?

package-management

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As this was overrides for a binary package they need to be installed using dh_lintian before lintian is run. And actually before the package is being made by dh_builddeb. And even more the override files (usr/share/lintian/overrides/<package>) installed must be included in the md5sums. So the sequence in the rulesfile need to be explicitly this:

    ...
dh_lintian
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb

    I don't know if dh implicitly does it this way but I couldn't use it, therefore the explicit list of dh_*.

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