Bug#779675: lintian: Add flag --list-tags that will list all tags Lintian knows about
As another use case for a --list-tags:
In discussing things in #debian-mentors or #debian-qa it's not uncommon that I
want to look up information from the long description of a tag... but first I
need to guess what the tag is. The long description often has really useful
rationale and links to policy, bugs or other documentation.
My current crappy solution is
$ dpkg -L lintian | xargs grep -hs ^Tag:
My wishlist is:
$ lintian-info --list-tags | grep encoding
debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
debian-news-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
$ lintian-info -t debian-copyright-<tab><tab>
debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
debian-copyright-is-symlink
(perhaps lintian-info -t could take a glob or regex as an alternative to a
simple tag name)
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Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stuart@debian.org
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