Bug#109642: debhelper: Simplify inclusion of lintian overrides

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Package: debhelper
Version: 5.0.16
Followup-For: Bug #109642

I'm ccing the current maintainers of lintian so that they can give their
opinion on this bug.

Given the opinions voiced in this bug log here's what I suggest :

Overrides should only be placed with care, that's right, that doesn't mean
we shouldn't make it easy. Instead we should warn the maintainer that
the override is meant as a temporay measure until lintian is fixed.

Maybe the dh_lintian script should systematically print a prominent
warning in the build log asking the maintainer to check wether the lintian
override is still needed ?

But IMHO, debian/<package>.lintian-overrides should automatically be
installed in /usr/share/lintian/overrides/<package> by one of the dh_*
script (maybe dh_lintian could be folded into a generic dh_ script?).

Cheers,

-- 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 2.6.12-10-386
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils             2.16.1cvs20051214-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  coreutils [fileutils 5.93-5              The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf-utils        1.4.67              debconf utilities
ii  dpkg-dev             1.13.11.1           package building tools for Debian
ii  file                 4.15-2              Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text            1.3.2a-3            An advanced HTML to text converter
ii  perl                 5.8.7-10            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf           0.9.2               manage translated Debconf template

debhelper recommends no packages.

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