Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing

To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Cc: 995850@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#995850: lintian: more context is not always a good thing
From: Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmaster@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:53:54 +1100
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Reply-to: Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmaster@outlook.com>, 995850@bugs.debian.org
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On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 18:35:18 -0700 Felix Lechner wrote:
> By the way, you should also be able to use the wildcards * and ? in
> lieu of the line numbers right now. Please let me know if that works.

Thanks for allowing wildcards. I had no idea line contexts were
required until a few days ago.

Is it possible to make the line number component an optional array? line [1,3,5]

Specifying multiple line numbers doesn't seem to work at the moment.

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  - From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>

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