Bug#954224: lintian: please dim/color --show-overrides

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.57.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi!
When reviewing packages, I find myself hardly ever look at overridden tags,
as it's tedious to mentally weed them out when reading lintian output.
I think it would be great if you could visually mark them.

For example, using \e[2m (half-bright) would be nice -- and work on the
vast majority of terminals.  So would using \e[30;1m (bright black).

The former looks like:
printf '
W: libfoo-bar: \e[33ma-real-warning-tag\e[39m not enough cats
E: lib-foo-bar: \e[31ma-real-error-tag\e[39m too many dogs
\e[2mN: 
N: see Bug #954146
N: 
O: libsane-dev: \e[31mgzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe\e[39m xxx.gz\e[22m\n
'


Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-rc6-00085-ge6fd0e58416e (SMP w/64 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                     2.34-4
ii  bzip2                        1.0.8-2
ii  diffstat                     1.63-1
ii  dpkg                         1.20.0
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.20.0
ii  file                         1:5.38-4
ii  gettext                      0.19.8.1-10
ii  gpg                          2.2.19-3
ii  intltool-debian              0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl              0.1.36+b3
ii  libarchive-zip-perl          1.68-1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl         0.48-1
ii  libcgi-pm-perl               4.46-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl     1.19-3+b3
ii  libclone-perl                0.43-2
ii  libdevel-size-perl           0.83-1+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                 1.20.0
ii  libemail-valid-perl          1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl         0.08-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl       0.34-1
ii  libfont-ttf-perl             1.06-1
ii  libio-async-loop-epoll-perl  0.20-1
ii  libio-async-perl             0.75-1
ii  libipc-run-perl              20180523.0-2
ii  libjson-maybexs-perl         1.004000-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl         0.53-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl       0.416-1+b5
ii  libmoo-perl                  2.003006-1
ii  libmoox-aliases-perl         0.001006-1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl      0.27-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl            0.108-1
ii  libsereal-decoder-perl       4.011+ds-1
ii  libsereal-encoder-perl       4.011+ds-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl     0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3200-1
ii  libtry-tiny-perl             0.30-1
ii  libtype-tiny-perl            1.008001-2
ii  liburi-perl                  1.76-2
ii  libxml-libxml-perl           2.0134+dfsg-2
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl         0.81+repack-1
ii  man-db                       2.9.1-1
ii  patchutils                   0.3.4-2+b1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]    5.30.0-9
ii  t1utils                      1.41-3
ii  xz-utils                     5.2.4-1+b1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b6

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-5
pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>

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