Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 5:48 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> wrote:
>
> less context may actually
> be enough to identify the issue in question, as is here, where the line
> number, which is a more fragile identifier, is not needed.

We may be able to offer a command line option to turn off the line
numbers, but the line numbers are needed when parsing text to prevent
the issuance of duplicate hints, which now cause Lintian to croak.

At first glance, the line numbers seemed like a customer-friendly way
to distinguish hints, but I see your point. (Many more hints are fixed
than overridden.) Would it help for your override issue to relegate
the line numbers to the end of the context? Thanks!

Kind regards
Felix Lechner