Have you ever tried to add a Lintian override only to get it wrong? Fret not, with the “Lintian-overrider 2000″ such are problems of the past! Simply feed the tag emitted by Lintian to the Lintian-overrider 2000 and it will show you the correct format for the override plus the file to put said overide in. Furthermore, it will show you variants that you may (or may not) want to use instead.
$ echo "W: login: setuid-binary bin/su 4755 root/root" | \
lintian-overrider --alternative-forms
--8<-- debian/login.lintian-overrides --8<--
# If you want to override all (present and future) variants
# of this tag, use:
# setuid-binary
setuid-binary bin/su 4755 root/root
# Alternative forms...
# login: setuid-binary bin/su 4755 root/root
# login binary: setuid-binary bin/su 4755 root/root
# For architecture specific overrides, use one of:
# login [i386-any amd64-any other-archs] binary: setuid-binary bin/su 4755 root/root
# login [!i386-any !amd64-any !other-archs] binary: setuid-binary bin/su 4755 root/root
--8<-- End of debian/login.lintian-overrides --8<--
No more fiddling with that stupid syntax. Just feed it to the Lintian-overrider 2000 and instantly you will get the overrides you want!
If you sometimes make a copy-waste mistake or just feel life is too short manually update those files, the Lintian-overrider 2000 is the tool for you! With its --source-dir command line option, your lintian overrrides are updated automatically!
The Lintian-overrider 2000 can also automatically maintain your Lintian overrides for you! It is simple, just do:
$ lintian -o <path/to/your/changes-file.changes> | \
lintian-overrider --there-are-no-issues --source-dir <path/to/unpacked/source-tree>
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