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Customize lintian warnings and errors

bgstack15

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My current environment variables that help debuilds, i.e., part of my ~/.bashrc. These could, and probably should be, placed in the next file.

export DEBEMAIL=bgstack15@gmail.com
export DEBFULLNAME="B. Stack"

My current ~/.devscripts:

RMADISON_URL_MAP_DEVUAN=https://api.pkginfo.devuan.org/madison
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--profile stackrpms"
DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS="-us -uc -sa -i -I"

I wrote file /usr/share/lintian/profiles/stackrpms/main.profile.

# The default profile for stackrpms builds
Profile: stackrpms/main
Extends: debian/main
Disable-Tags:
 bugs-field-does-not-refer-to-debian-infrastructure
 maintainer-upload-has-incorrect-version-number
 bad-distribution-in-changes-file

And now I never have to see those by name again.

In conclusion, now I only need to run this:

time debuild

Instead of some longer invocation of debuild -us -uc --lintian-opts --profile=stackrpms which was not guaranteed to grab the lintian opts value.

References

Change the last value of this url with whichever tag you are investigating. https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/bad-distribution-in-changes-file

  1. GettingStartedWithDevelopment – Debathena

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