Allows to add an asterisk at the start and/or end of the
additional info to match arbitrary strings. This ensures
nearly full backwards compatibility and should cover many
cases where you might want to use this new feature.
---
debian/changelog | 7 +++++++
doc/lintian.sgml | 11 +++++++----
frontend/lintian | 13 ++++++++-----
lib/Tags.pm | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
Comments welcome.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dd667ef..1940b02 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ lintian (2.0.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=low
variable assignment as well and reduce false positives by ignoring
uses with $RANDOM or without a filename. Based on a patch from
Raphael Geissert.
+
+ * doc/lintian.sgml:
+ + [FL] Document wildcard support in overrides.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Ensure we close the pipe to lintian-info before exiting, since
@@ -58,6 +61,10 @@ lintian (2.0.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=low
lintian exits, producing confusing output interleaved with the
shell prompt. (Closes: #496295)
+ * lib/Tags.pm:
+ + [FL] Add support for specifying wildcards in overrides.
+ (Closes: #253884)
+
* lib/Tags/ColonSeparated.pm:
+ [FL] Update for new features and make a little bit easier to read
for humans:
diff --git a/doc/lintian.sgml b/doc/lintian.sgml
index 6b8953b..1442aff 100644
--- a/doc/lintian.sgml
+++ b/doc/lintian.sgml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<author>Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
<author>Frank Lichtenheld <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
<author>Contact address: <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
-<version>version 1.23.8, 31 January 2005
+<version>version 2.0.0, 02 September 2008
<abstract>
This manual describes Lintian, the Debian package checker.
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This manual describes Lintian, the Debian package checker.
<copyright>Copyright © 1998 Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman
Copyright © 2000 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
- Copyright © 2004 Frank Lichtenheld
+ Copyright © 2004,2008 Frank Lichtenheld
<p>
This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ not used in current Lintian versions.
The format of the overrides file is simple, it consists of one override per
line (and may contain empty lines and comments, starting with a #, on others):
<tt>[<package>[ <type>]: ]<lintian-tag>[
-<lintian-info>]</tt>. <tt><package></tt> is the package name;
+[*]<lintian-info>[*]]</tt>. <tt><package></tt> is the package
name;
<tt><type></tt> is one of <tt>binary</tt>, <tt>udeb</tt> and
<tt>source</tt>, and <tt><lintian-info></tt> is all additional
information provided by Lintian except for the tag. What's inside brackets is
@@ -489,7 +489,10 @@ Many tags can occour more than once (e.g. if the same
error is found
in more than one file). You can override a tag either completly by
specifying its name (first line in the examples) or only one
occurrence of it by specifying the additional info, too (second line
-in the examples).
+in the examples). If you add an asterisk (<tt>*</tt>) at the start and/or
+end of the additional info, this will match arbitrary strings similar to
+the shell wildcard. Asterisks located at any other place in the info have
+no special meaning. This wildcard support was added in Lintian version 2.0.0.
<chapt>Advanced usage
diff --git a/frontend/lintian b/frontend/lintian
index 964c3a4..c4ff4f8 100755
--- a/frontend/lintian
+++ b/frontend/lintian
@@ -1454,10 +1454,11 @@ for (reverse sort @packages) {
s/\s+/ /go;
my $override = $_;
$override =~ s/^\Q$pkg\E( \Q$long_type\E)?: //;
- if ($override eq '' or $override !~
/^[\w0-9.+-]+(\s+.*)?$/) {
+ if ($override eq '' or $override !~ /^[\w.+-]+(\s.*)?$/) {
tag ('malformed-override', $_);
} else {
- Tags::add_override($override);
+ my ($tag, $extra) = split(/ /, $override, 2);
+ Tags::add_override($tag, $extra);
}
}
close(O);
@@ -1512,10 +1513,12 @@ for (reverse sort @packages) {
if (not $no_override) {
my $overrides = Tags::get_overrides( $file );
- for my $o (sort keys %$overrides) {
- next if $overrides->{$o};
+ for my $tag (sort keys %$overrides) {
+ for my $extra (sort keys %{$overrides->{$tag}}) {
+ next if $overrides->{$tag}{$extra};
- tag( "unused-override", $o );
+ tag( "unused-override", $tag, $extra );
+ }
}
}
diff --git a/lib/Tags.pm b/lib/Tags.pm
index 43f7e92..452e3ee 100644
--- a/lib/Tags.pm
+++ b/lib/Tags.pm
@@ -171,19 +171,20 @@ sub reset {
# Add an override. If you specifiy two arguments, the first will be taken
# as file to add the override to, otherwise 'current' will be assumed
sub add_override {
- my ($tag, $file) = ( "", "" );
- if (@_ > 1) {
- ($file, $tag) = @_;
+ my ($tag, $extra, $file) = ( "", "", "" );
+ if (@_ > 2) {
+ ($file, $tag, $extra) = @_;
} else {
- ($file, $tag) = ($current, @_);
+ ($file, $tag, $extra) = ($current, @_);
}
+ $extra ||= "";
unless ($file) {
warn "Don't know which package to add override $tag to";
return 0;
}
- $info{$file}{overrides}{$tag} = 0;
+ $info{$file}{overrides}{$tag}{$extra} = 0;
return 1;
}
@@ -218,14 +219,30 @@ sub check_overrides {
my ( $tag_info, $information ) = @_;
my $extra = '';
- $extra = " @$information" if @$information;
- $extra = '' if $extra eq ' ';
- if( exists $info{$current}{overrides}{$tag_info->{tag}}) {
- $info{$current}{overrides}{$tag_info->{tag}}++;
- return $tag_info->{tag};
- } elsif( exists $info{$current}{overrides}{"$tag_info->{tag}$extra"} ) {
- $info{$current}{overrides}{"$tag_info->{tag}$extra"}++;
- return "$tag_info->{tag}$extra";
+ $extra = "@$information" if @$information;
+ my $tag = $tag_info->{tag};
+ my $overrides = $info{$current}{overrides}{$tag};
+ return unless $overrides;
+
+ if( exists $overrides->{''} ) {
+ $overrides->{''}++;
+ return $tag;
+ } elsif( $extra and exists $overrides->{$extra} ) {
+ $overrides->{$extra}++;
+ return "$tag $extra";
+ } elsif ( $extra ) {
+ foreach (keys %$overrides) {
+ my $regex = $_;
+ if (m/^\*/ or m/\*$/) {
+ my ($start, $end) = ("","");
+ $start = '.*' if $regex =~ s/^\*//;
+ $end = '.*' if $regex =~ s/\*$//;
+ if ($extra =~ /^$start\Q$regex\E$end$/) {
+ $overrides->{$_}++;
+ return "$tag $_";
+ }
+ }
+ }
}
return '';
--
1.5.6.5
Gruesse,
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