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Bug#735518: marked as done (lintian: Check for overrides that are missing an explanation)

Your message dated Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:42:09 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #735518,
regarding lintian: Check for overrides that are missing an explanation
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Please add a warning for overrides where there is no comment before them
explaining the situation leading to the override. See also #512901 and
#474590 for related lintian bug reports.

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Chris Lamb wrote:

> > Check for overrides that are missing an explanation
> 
> I think so many overrides are somewhat self-evident that this would
> result in so many false-positives that this would just be too annoying.
> 
> And that would be even if we started "from scratch" and encouraged this
> from the start of Lintian - we have an archive full of mostly uncommented
> overrides at this point that might be too big a ship to turn around at
> this point. 

I'm actually going to go-ahead and close this rather than have an
arbitrary set of Lintian bugs closed and another arbitrary set
left-open as "wont fix".


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