Bug#513086: Lintian could provide some hints how I can repeat a certain check myself
Fabian Greffrath <greffrath@leat.rub.de> writes:
> it would be nice if lintian could be more verbose about *how* it found
> out a certain issue and how I can check it manually myself. For example,
> I have no idea how lintian knows about shlib-with-non-pic-code or
> shlib-with-executable-stack.
>
> On the other hand, manpage-has-errors-from-man provides a section
> beginning with "To test this for yourself [...]" and gives a precise
> command how to reproduce the error detection.
>
> It would be nice if this could be expanded to more error/warning
> descriptions.
I definitely agree that this is a good idea. I've added instructions for
those tags and went through the rest of shared-libs. I think it's best to
deal with these on a case-by-case basis (unless anyone feels like doing a
comprehensive audit of all of our tag descriptions, but there are 770
tags), so please open a bug whenever you see a tag where the existing
details aren't sufficient.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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