RE: Doesn't lintian accept overriding its build-depends-without-

On 23-Jun-2002 Shaul Karl wrote:
> As previously discussed here 
> ( http://lists.debian.org/2002/debian-mentors-200202/msg00100.html ) I 
> am trying to override lintian's build-depends-without-arch-dep error.
> 
> Lintian's output line is:
> 
>     E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep
> 
> I have tried to put in usr/share/lintian/overrides/tkman the following 
> lines:
> 
>     build-depends-without-arch-dep
>     tkman: build-depends-without-arch-dep

>     tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep

this is the line that would have worked, if overriding source errors was
permitted.

>     tkman: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep
> 
> However none was able to overrides lintian's error message.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 

nothing except trying to override something lintian does not know how to
override (-:

The better answer is lintian needs to be fixed to handle this somehow.


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