Bug#527026: a way to set default options
Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
I think it's useful to have a variable too, since it catches the other
things that may run lintian besides debuild. Seems like a good idea to
me.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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