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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2019-03-20 06:26:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2019-03-24 03:22:23 +0100 |
| commit | 7658b575d978b9c6655854cd6dc1c2de031fdca5 (patch) | |
| tree | 146cd7dd4fc05215c0adeb41f3f25cc0b7f27e26 /man | |
| parent | d347adb2fda7f627db946db9efc15d70fd0db569 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-7658b575d978b9c6655854cd6dc1c2de031fdca5.tar.gz | |
debian: Add a lintian dpkg profile to supress Debian specific tags
This makes it possible to disable tags that are Debian specific, such as
the controversial tag emitted for vendor-specific patch series files.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-source.man | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-source.man b/man/dpkg-source.man index 49a162914..502c67311 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-source.man +++ b/man/dpkg-source.man @@ -506,6 +506,11 @@ options and always expect patches that can be applied with the \fB\-p1\fP option of \fBpatch\fP. It will thus emit a warning when it encounters such options, and the build is likely to fail. .PP +Note that \fBlintian\fP(1) will emit unconditional warnings when using +vendor series due to a controversial Debian specific ruling, which should +not affect any external usage; to silence these, the dpkg lintian profile +can be used by passing «\fB--profile dpkg\fP» to \fBlintian\fP(1). +.PP The timestamp of all patched files is reset to the extraction time of the source package (this avoids timestamp skews leading to problems when autogenerated files are patched). |