Lintian tag: excessive-debhelper-overrides

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The debian/rules file appears to include a suspiciously high number of
override_dh_-style overrides.

It is likely that is this was intended to optimise package builds by
introducing "no-op" overrides that avoid specific debhelper commands.

However, whilst using overrides are not a problem per-se, such a list is
usually subject to constant revision, prevents future debhelper versions
fixing archive-wide problems, adds unnecessary noise/distraction for
anyone reviewing the package, and increases the package's "bus factor". It
is, in addition, aesthetically displeasing.

Furthermore, this is typically a premature optimisation. debhelper already
includes optimizations to avoid running commands when unnecessary. If you
find a debhelper command taking unnecessarily long when it has no work to
do, please work with the debhelper developers to help debhelper skip that
command in more circumstances, optimizing not only your package build but
everyone else's as well.

Please remove the unnecessary overrides.

Please refer to the debhelper(7) manual page and the dh(1) manual page for
details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debhelper

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