Bug#493903: lintian: please provide a way of limiting the checks run by lintian based on tags
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:05:41AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> The main difference afaics is that one version quietens the emitting of
>> tags unless one explicitly asked for them, whereas the other
>> potentially raises all tags from the checks scripts containing the
>> requested tags; I'm not sure which is the best approach at the moment.
>
> FWIW, my version could easily be changed to support that, too. I'm
> indifferent to whether it should be, though.
I'm fairly sure Joerg is looking for limiting the issued tags to only the
ones specified in the tag file, regardless of which check scripts are run.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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