Bug#636681: lintian: Please describe the configuration file format
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.1
Severity: normal
I had some trouble figuring out how to put variables into ~/.lintianrc.
RTFM did not quite help, since the lintian manpage does not seem to give
a description of its format, although I figured out that it's probably
one variable per line. So I did the try-and-error approach:
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| % apt-get source ed
| [...]
| % echo display-info > ~/.lintianrc
| % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc
| syntax error in configuration file: display-info
| % echo "display-info 1" > ~/.lintianrc
| % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc
| syntax error in configuration file: display-info 1
| % echo "display-info true" > ~/.lintianrc
| % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc
| syntax error in configuration file: display-info true
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At this point I almost thought resorting to UTSL would be necessary.
One more try:
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| % echo "display-info = true" > ~/.lintianrc
| % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc
| % echo "display-info = 1" > ~/.lintianrc
| % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc
`----
Aha!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.1-rc1-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.21.53.20110729-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.62-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1 Dpkg perl modules
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid
ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.13-13 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii unzip 6.0-5 De-archiver for .zip files
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1 Debian package development tools
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1 collection of modules that parse H
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities
-- no debconf information
-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/share/lintian/checks/binaries (from lintian package)
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