Bug#527026: a way to set default options

[Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.10
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if lintian had a way to set some default options, e.g., by a variable such as

LINTIAN_OPTIONS='--color=auto -E'

This could go into the shell initialization files or into .lintianrc.

There is precedent for something like that, e.g.,

GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto --exclude=TAGS'

or

LESS='-i -S'

The way to do this currently, I suppose, is via DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS plus a 
shell alias.  Maybe that's OK, but perhaps you agree with my idea above.