Re: error messages in the raw lintian.log

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

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:
>
> > There are quite a lot of error messages in lintian.log:
> > $ grep -v -E "^(X|O|W|N|I|E): "
> > /org/lintian.debian.org/logs/lintian.log Argument "4\n4" isn't
> > numeric in numeric lt (<) at
[...]
> > Have you considered redirecting them elsewhere, so they don't end up
> > in the log?
>
> Well, sending them to the log was an improvement so that we could find
> them.  However, a further improvement may be to use a separate log
> just for them.

More specifically, so we could find the errors and associate them with the 
package responsible; the latter constraint is what makes this more 
complicated than simply redirecting stderr to a separate log.

Adam