Bug#688320: lintian: --suppress-tags not working?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-09-21 17:02, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.10.1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
>

Hi,

> in a Debian wheezy cowbuilder instance on one of our Jenkins
> buildbots, I am calling lintian like this:
> 
> lintian -vIi --display-experimental --pedantic --suppress-tags package-has-long-file-name -X nmu --allow-root /tmp/buildd/fusionforge_5.1.1+evolvis70~snapshot.20120921.145452_amd64.changes
> 
> And yet, still I get:
> 
> […]
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is tag exclusion really
> not working right? I’d like to not display this tag for
> snapshot builds because of the automatically appended-to
> version (also the reason for -X nmu, as it changes the
> debian/changelog file machinally for them).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> //mirabilos

It looks like a regression in the frontend that makes it ignore
--suppress-tags with -C or -X.

~Niels