Re: RFC: [PATCH] Make "lintian --info --color=auto" work again
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 17:00 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:32:26PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > The attached patch replaces the pipe from the main lintian script to
> > lintian-info with an extra flag to Lintian::Output::print_tag()
> > indicating whether the full output should be displayed. This allows
> > "lintian --info --color=auto" to produce colourised output when being
> > output to a terminal.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
>
> While I don't doubt that your patch accomplishes it goal, I wonder
> whether it would be better to fix this "correctly" now. By this
> I mean:
That'll teach me to ask for comments. :-)
Seriously, thanks for the feedback; constructive criticism is always
appreciated.
Adam
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