Bug#508341: lintian: Dropped html color output
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> HTML colour output was dropped in 2.1.0 as part of the reorganisation of
> Lintian's output methods. I assume no-one had realised that it was in
> active use. :-/
Ack, I knew it was in active use, but I must have missed that message.
> Reintroducing it shouldn't be a problem, although I'm debating whether
> that should be directly (by readding the original option) or as an
> alternative output format (i.e. "lintian --exp-output format=htmlcolor"
> or similar).
I'd rather we put back the original option. We shouldn't make users use a
different option, and that output format wasn't experimental. It was
intended to be a regularly supported option.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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