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, though, that the
lintian command has a
command line option
-i to display the same results as
lintian-info, so you will not normally need to pipe the output of
lintian into this command.)
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.
- -h, --help
- Display usage information and exit.
- --profile prof
- Use the severities from the vendor profile prof when
displaying tags. If the profile name does not contain a slash, the default
profile for than vendor is chosen.
If not specified, lintian-info loads the best profile for the current
vendor.
Please Refer to the Lintian User Manual for the full documentation of
profiles.
- -t, --tags
- Rather than treating them as log file names, treat any
command-line 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¶
lintian(1)
AUTHORS¶
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>