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Override dir-or-file-in-opt

I support commercial binary package for debian, ubuntu etc. and received complaints about “poor packaging quality” from the Ubuntu installer. The main reason for this is because the package installs files in the / opt and / etc / opt directories, which apparently throw lintian into a flexible form. Since I understand the purpose of these directories, they are designed to meet the needs of Add-on applications, although I still don't see any definition of what add means. I tried to create a lintian override file for my package in the / usr / share / lintian / overrides directory, and when I do this, I get the following report from Lintian:

N: Some overrides were ignored, since the tags were marked "non-overridable".
N: The following tags were "non-overridable" and had at least one override
N:   - dir-or-file-in-opt

Is there any way around this sheer stubbornness?

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If you use debhelper to build your package, lintian overrides for binary packages should be in the debian folder with the file name [package].lintian-overrides. This ensures that overrides get into the appropriate directory when installing the package. (For source packages, overrides are in the file debian/source/lintian-overrides.)

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Debian, 5.14
Lintian, 2.4
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