Bug#490374: Please add "describe tag" command-line option

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.24.1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> It would be nice if lintian had a command-line option to print a tag's
> description on-demand.

lintian-info -t <tag>

I had the same need a while back.  :)  lintian-info is actually the
program that deals with long tag descriptions; lintian --info actually
just pipes the output of lintian through lintian-info.

We should probably add a reference to this in lintian's man page.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>