diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 077fbd7e6..4eb5be399 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ DEBIAN =					\
   debian/python3-spot.install			\
   debian/rules					\
   debian/source/format				\
+  debian/source/lintian-overrides		\
   debian/spot-doc.doc-base			\
   debian/spot-doc.docs				\
   debian/spot-doc.install			\
diff --git a/debian/source/lintian-overrides b/debian/source/lintian-overrides
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b4789632e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/lintian-overrides
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Doxygen copies some javascript inside the generated documentation,
+# but the source of that is already in the Doxygen package.
+spot source: source-is-missing doc/spot.html/*
+# These are extra javascript packages that trans.html currently depends
+# on.  But they should be removed eventually.
+spot source: source-is-missing python/ajax/js/jquery.*