Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

retitle 917120 lintian: misleading line format description in lintianrc
thanks

Salvo,

> # Also note, that this file uses a special syntax:
> # Empty lines are allowed, comments are introduced by a hash sign (#).
> # All other lines must have the format
> #    VAR=text
> # or
> #    VAR="text"

I don't read this as forbidding spaces myself, but I would concede
that it could be ambiguous so very happy to update the comment.

For the avoidance of doubt, I was asking you to copy-paste exactly
what you were seeing and reading (text, errors, etc.) just in case we
had different file contents. When filing bugs, please do try and a) be
as explicit as possible and b) avoid making assumptions about what the
problem is (your bug title is misleading; the commented-out syntax is
perfectly valid).

We could have saved a number of round-trips at the very least. :)


Best wishes,

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