Bug#802725: lintian: add improved documentation for --display-level in man page
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.38
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Please consider adding more extensive documentation for the
--display-level option and other options that take similar arguments.
For instance:
[+|-|=][>=|>|<|<=][S|C|S/C]
How does the first set of symbols differ from the second set? What is
the difference between +, -, and = in the first set?
There are times when the first symbol is omitted. What does that mean?
The --default-display-level option says that it behaves exactly like
passing:
-L ">=important" -L "+>=normal/possible" -L "+minor/certain"
What does it mean to pass three incantations of -L to lintian? Under
what circumstances would/should you do this?
Thanks for improving lintian's documentation!
Cheers,
-m
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.25-10
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.22+15-2
ii gettext 0.19.4-1
ii hardening-includes 2.7
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.2
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.48-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.3
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.196-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-5
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.12-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5
ii patchutils 0.3.4-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-6
ii t1utils 1.38-4
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii dpkg 1.18.1
ii libautodie-perl 2.28-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1
ii perl 5.20.2-6
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-6
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.3
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 1.13-1
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