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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, 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.

   --include-dir dir
       Use dir as an additional "Lintian root".  The directory is expected
       have a similar layout to the LINTIAN_ROOT (if it exists), but does
       not need to be a full self-contained root.

       Unlike lintian, lintian-info will not load any code from these
       additional directories.

       This option may appear more than once; each time adding an
       additional directory.

       Note: This option should be the very first if given.

   --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, --tag, --tags
       Rather than treating them as log file names, treat any command-line
       options as tag names and display the descriptions of each tag.

   --user-dirs, --no-user-dirs
       By default, lintian will check $HOME and /etc for files supplied by
       the user or the local sysadmin (e.g. profiles).  This default can
       be disabled (and re-enabled) by using --no-user-dirs (and
       --user-dirs, respectively).

       These option can appear multiple times, in which case the of them
       to appear determines the result.

       Note: This option should be the very first if given.

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>



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