Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 917120 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Salvo,

> According to the comments at the beginning of the file, /etc/lintianrc uses
> shell syntax (it gets sourced I presume).

Hm? It's not shell, it's parsed with:

  https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/commands/lintian.pm#L1240

> It would be better if people could just uncomment, rather than needing to fix
> the syntax as well.

What error message(s) are you seeing, specifically?


Regards,

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