Control: retitle -1 Doesn't show unused override On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 06:41:14PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 09:12:40AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Sometimes an override becomes unnecessary, either because the package > > changed to not need it or lintian changed to become more discerning and > > no longer flags the package. Either way, at that point the override > > becomes unnecessary. Lintian should show the unnecessary override to > > call attention to it, so that the maintainer can remove it. > > It already does it? > > Check out https://lintian.debian.org/tags/unused-override.html
Interesting. I filed this because I observed lintian not raising this when I expected it to. For a test case, git clone https://joshtriplett.org/git/josh-meta and run ./build in that directory. Note that the josh-dev package has a now-unnecessary lintian override, which should trigger unused-override.
