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



Russ Allbery wrote:

> lintian-info -t <tag>

D'oh, many thanks.

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

Patch for this attached.


Regards,

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Chris Lamb, UK                                       chris@chris-lamb.co.uk
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diff --git a/man/lintian.1 b/man/lintian.1
index 6d0d76b..1744e0e 100644
--- a/man/lintian.1
+++ b/man/lintian.1
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ Behaviour options for
 .TP
 .BR \-i ", " \-\-info
 Print explanatory information about discovered policy violations in
-addition to the lintian error tags.
+addition to the lintian error tags. To print a long tag description
+without running lintian, see
+.BR lintian\-info (1).
 
 .TP
 .BR \-I ", " \-\-display\-info

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