Bug#441636: lintian: Doesn't check command line arguments properly
Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.28
> Severity: minor
> I tried verifying a package using lintian *.dsc and was very happy that
> lintian did not report errors.
> Now I noticed that I have to call it with the .changes file! Why isn't
> my error not detected?
Because lintian supports checking different things. If you run it on a
*.dsc file, it checks the source package. If you run it on a *.deb file,
it checks a binary package. If you run it on *.changes, it checks
everything listed in that *.changes file. All of those ways of running
lintian are valid. Running it directly on source and .deb files is used
when checking the whole archive.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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