DH_LINTIAN(1)

💅 DH_LINTIAN — bestie edition 💅

okay so this is dh_lintian, and it lives in the Debhelper manual (that's section 1, the classics 💖). pull up a chair, we're installing lintian override files into package build directories and it's giving very demure, very mindful, very usr/share/lintian/overrides.

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_lintian — install lintian override files into package build directories 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_lintian [debhelper options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so dh_lintian is a debhelper program 🫶 and its whole thing — its entire main character job — is installing the override files that lintian uses into your package build directories. that's it. that's the job. it does the one thing and it does it slayfully ✨

✨ FILES ✨

• debian/package.lintian-overrides — this one gets installed 💅 straight into usr/share/lintian/overrides/package inside the package build directory (yes, with package being your actual package name, iykyk 🦋). the whole point of this file? it suppresses erroneous lintian diagnostics — like, when lintian is being loud and wrong about you, this is your polite note saying "bestie no 😭".
• debian/source/lintian-overrides — plot twist 🫢 these files are NOT installed. nope. they stay put. but lintian itself will scan them to grab overrides for the source package. so it's not an install situation, it's a "lintian comes to you" situation 💀

fr fr: one of these gets installed, one of these just sits there being scanned. don't mix them up, bestie 🙈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• debhelper(1) 👑
• this program is a part of debhelper ✨
• lintian(1) 🔥

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Steve Robbins <smr@debian.org> — the icon, the legend, the moment 🌟

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version 14.5ubuntu1, dated 2026-09-21, and yeah that's the whole DH_LINTIAN(1) page babes 🎀 tysm for reading, go forth and suppress those erroneous diagnostics, no cap 💖🦋✨