On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:58 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 07:44:05PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:40 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > It no longer triggers that tag as of lintian 2.5.104, which > > > allows > > > metapackages to depend on toolchain packages. > > > > Right, sorry, I missed that the stretch-backports package is > > lagging a > > little. > > > > However, running from a current lintian git checkout gives: > > > > adam@jacala:~/code/debian/lintian$ ./frontend/lintian -I -E -- > > pedantic --show-overrides ../../josh-meta/target/josh- > > dev_77_all.deb > > P: josh-dev: copyright-refers-to-symlink-license usr/share/common- > > licenses/GPL > > I: josh-dev: unused-override binary-package-depends-on-toolchain- > > package > > > > which looks like exactly what was expected? > > ...argh. unused-override is *info*-level? > > That explains why I didn't see it by default, but is there any > particular reason for that?
It's been that way since at least lintian 1.23 (April 2004) according to git, so I imagine no-one remembers specifically why. Regards, Adam
