Bug#441636: lintian: Doesn't check command line arguments properly

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.28
Severity: minor

Hi,

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?

Jens

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.17cvs20070426-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.43-2            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.13.25           package building tools for Debian
ii  file                   4.17-5etch2       Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.16.1-1          GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1             parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db                 2.4.3-6           The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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