Bug#508341: lintian: Dropped html color output
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 09:56 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "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.
I can't remember if I spotted it at the time, but it was the same commit
that broke "lintian -i --color=auto" so I noticed it whilst fixing that.
> > 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.
Okay, I'll go with that then.
Adam
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