Screens
These screens are a centralized facility in Lintian with which exemptions are granted to groups of packages.
They are intended for situations entirely outside of a distributor's control.
Here the 7 screens we know about. Some may be historical.
- autotools/long-lines — (masks very-long-line-length-in-source-file)
- coq/cmxs/prerequisites — (masks shared-library-lacks-prerequisites)
- emacs/elpa/scripts — (masks executable-in-usr-lib)
- glibc/control/ldconfig — (masks maintscript-calls-ldconfig)
- python/egg/metadata — (masks package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc)
- toolchain/gnat/ali-read-only — (masks non-standard-file-perm)
- web/cgi/scripts — (masks executable-in-usr-lib)