Monthly Archive for July, 2009

How to not use lintian overrides

Look what just got added to all the packages maintained by the Debian Forensics team:

--- md5deep-3.4.orig/debian/source.lintian-overrides
+++ md5deep-3.4/debian/source.lintian-overrides
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Avoid warnings if non-uploaders to uploads.
+md5deep source: changelog-should-mention-nmu
+md5deep source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number

You’re doing it wrong.