Bug#709932: Upcoming changes to Lintian's exit status; new --fail-on option

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi,

> [Lintian] Currently ... exits with "1" if policy violations ... are detected.

This behavior will soon be reversed. Lintian will exit with status 1
on program errors (thus enabling the use of 'die') and with status 2
on policy violations.

> It would be nice if lintian had an option to exit with a status != 0
> only if there are internal errors.

You will soon have some control via the upcoming '--fail-on'
command-line option. More information may be available here:

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/311

Please also look out for a more widely disseminated announcement of
these changes, probably on debian-devel.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner