On 11/01/2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hm, or we could list the total including info tags and only mention > the info overrides explicitly if -I is given. So without -I, you'd > get something like: > > N: 2 overrides (1 warning) > > That probably wouldn't be any less confusing, though.
Indeed… > I'd like to ahve the total remain, so maybe we should just always list > the info total as well, whether -I is included or not. > > N: 2 overrides (1 warning, 1 info) That sounds way better to me. Having “N info” doesn't hurt much IMHO. > (Completely separately, I'm really questioning the utility of the two > tags you're overriding, particularly the info tag, and they may just > go away or be significantly modified in a later version of lintian.) I guess they might be useful when one starts maintaining a library, without having too much knowledge about what packaging libraries means. I must confess that I didn't take the time to check whether such a bug against lintian was open, since I had lots to do with graphviz already; sorry about that. -- Cyril Brulebois
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