Bug#764486: lintian: Please allow to use suppress-tags or dont-check-part from .lintianrc
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.28
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
it'd be nice if I could suppress specific tags globally in my
~/.lintianrc by being able to use e.g. suppress-tags or dont-check-part
in there.
I've got two use cases for suppressing tags globally because I run into
them regularily;
* Known issues in lintian, e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/732246 with
rc-version-greater-than-expected-version. I don't want to use
overrides here because I'd get an unused-override warning as soon as
#732246 is fixed.
* Disagreeing with the reasoning (e.g. debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk)
and hence ignoring the tag anyways. There's a subtle difference
between this and adding an override. An override usually means that
it's a false positive -- which is not the case here.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.17-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.51.20141001-3
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.19-2
ii gettext 0.19.2-2
ii hardening-includes 2.6
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.38-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.92-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.16
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.09-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-1
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.1-1
ii t1utils 1.37-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1
ii perl 5.20.1-1
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.1-1
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.24.51.20141001-3
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.16
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 1.12-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
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