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Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?



On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 16:43 +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> Currently Lintian requires a (source or binary) package to check[1].

(and some checks require *both* source and binary packages available)

> Is anyone aware of a way to run lintian directly on a debian/
> directory contents as-is without doing a source build first?

I don't think this is supported yet, there is a bug open since 2004:

https://bugs.debian.org/262783

> I am exploring this in order to get my text editor to nag about
> findings immediately without separate source build steps.

This will miss the binary-only and source-and-binary checks,
but it would indeed be quite useful for the source-only checks.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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