Package: linda Version: 0.3.24 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
Hi, The manpage of linda doesn't say that lines starting with # in an override file are ignored. I think that it should be mentionned, because it's very useful to comment why we're ignoring certain linda errors in an override file. (I've checked in /usr/share/python-support/linda/linda/parser/override.py, line 21 that lines starting with # are ignored). Patch attached. Wording may not be very beautiful: english is not my native language. Thanks, Thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-rc2 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages linda depends on: ii binutils 2.17-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dash 0.5.3-3 The Debian Almquist Shell ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager ii python 2.4.3-11 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.4.1 automated rebuilding support for p Versions of packages linda recommends: ii debian-policy 3.7.2.1 Debian Policy Manual and related d -- no debconf information
--- linda-0.3.24/linda.1 2006-04-26 07:43:51.000000000 +0200 +++ linda-0.3.24.new/linda.1 2006-08-17 22:50:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ .PP Not only errors can be overridden, but the actually type of the error (be it Error, Warning or whatever) can actually be overridden in the override file by specifying a Type field for the tag in question. .PP +Lines starting with # will be ignored, which is useful for comments. +.PP Another thing worth pointing out is that overrides in later files will be merged with previously read override files. .SH TYPES .PP
