Re: Lintian name

To: Wouter Koolen-Wijkstra <wmkoolen@science.uva.nl>
Cc: lintian-maint@debian.org
Subject: Re: Lintian name
From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:08:02 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:02:43AM +0200, Wouter Koolen-Wijkstra wrote:
> Dear Lintian Maintainer,
> 
> Just a curious question: what is the origin of the name lintian? I could 
> not find this information in the User Manual.

Don't know for sure, but I suppose it is a samentrekking of 'lint'
(automated style checker for C programs, see lint(1)) and Debian.

Hence, lint-ian, lintian.

Don't know why lint is called lint though...

--Jeroen

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