Bug#493903: lintian: please provide a way of limiting the checks run by lintian based on tags

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:40:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I was assuming the process would largely be:

if ! lintian --show-overrides --tags-from-file 
autorejecttags --fail-on-warnings >$tempfile 2>&1; then
   reject "Your package sucks! $(cat tempfile)"
fi

Although that doesn't require only running the checks scripts required for 
those tags, it seems logical not to run those for which the results will be 
entirely discarded - particularly where the script is longer-running.

Adam