Bug#441636: lintian: Doesn't check command line arguments properly
Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net> writes:
> Mmh, is the manpage still up-to-date?
So far as I know.
> "There are three ways to specify binary, udeb or source packages for
> Lintian to process: by file name, by package name, or by naming a
> .changes file."
> *.dsc is not a package name and not a .changes file. So it has to be a
> "file name"?
Right.
> But does .dsc differ from .changes, both are similar files (no package
> names, ...)?
No, the *.dsc file represents a source package. A *.changes file can
represent a wide variety of things (usually, but not necessarily, a source
file and some accompanying binaries).
> If .dsc is an file name this is true for .changes as well. Please
> rephrase it.
Okay, I'll take another stab at it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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