lintian-info(1)
NAME
lintian-info - give detailed information about Lintian's error tags
SYNOPSIS
lintian-info [log-file...] ... lintian-info --tags tag ...
DESCRIPTION
The lintian-info command parses the output of the lintian command and
gives verbose information about the listed Lintian error tags, parses a
Lintian override file and gives verbose information about the tags
included, or (if given the -t or --tags option) explains a given tag or
tags.
If no log-file is specified on the command line, this command expects
its input on stdin. Thus, the output of lintian can either be piped
through lintian-info or a log file produced by lintian can be processed
with this command. (Note, that the lintian command has a command line
option -i to automatically pipe its output through lintian-info. Thus,
you will rarely use this command directly.)
OPTIONS
- -a, --annotate
- Read from standard input or any files specified on the command
line and search the input for lines formatted like Lintian
override entries. For each one that was found, display verbose information about that tag. - -t, --tags
- Rather than treating them as log file names, treat any commandline options as tag names and display the descriptions of each
tag.
EXIT STATUS
If -t or --tags was given and one or more of the tags specified were
unknown, this command returns the exit code 1. Otherwise, it always
returns with exit code 0.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>