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+# THIS FILE SERVES FOR WHITELISTING RPMLINT ERRORS AND WARNINGS IN TASKOTRON
+# https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Taskotron/Tasks/dist.rpmlint#Whitelisting_errors
+
+# (same file in python3 package served as a great example)
+
+
+
+# Spelling errors
+addFilter(r'spelling-error .* en_US (libmariadb) ')
+
+# Debugsource
+addFilter(r'^mariadb-connector-c\d?-debugsource\.[^:]+: (E|W): no-documentation')
+
+# Debuginfo
+addFilter(r'^mariadb-connector-c\d?-debuginfo\.[^:]+: (E|W): useless-provides debuginfo\(build-id\)')
+
+# Missing documentation from subpackages
+addFilter(r'^mariadb-connector-c\d?-(devel)\.[^:]+: (E|W): no-documentation')
+
+# No manual page for binary
+#   Upstream issue tracker: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/CONC-293
+addFilter(r'no-manual-page-for-binary (mariadb|mysql)_config$')