Bug#875636: lintian ignores profiles under $HOME

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed pending

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:32:05 -0700 Daniel Kauffman
<daniel.kauffman@rocksolidsolutions.org> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.50.4
> Severity: important
> 
> lintian ignores profiles under $HOME.  Previous versions of lintian 
> recognized profiles under $HOME.  I'm not sure exactly when the 
> regression happened.  At least some version of lintian in Jessie worked.
> 
> The order in which lintian searches for profiles is documented at 
> https://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-2.5.html in section 2.5.1.  
> But in my case the search seems to be skipping $HOME.
> 
> Here is a transcript showing the issue:
> 
> [...]

Hi,


 * The code supports "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lintian/profiles" (defaults to
   $HOME/.local/share/lintian/profiles), which can be used as a work
   around.

 * This was not documented but will be in 2.5.55.

 * I have re-added support for $HOME/.lintian, which will also land
   in 2.5.55.

Thanks,
~Niels