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Bug#508341: lintian: Dropped html color output



On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:58 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 09:56 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> > > 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.

I've re-added (and committed) support for the original option.

The only place it's not currently documented is in the --help output
but, so far as I can see, it never has been there.

Adam



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