Re: lintian usage and inconsistence problem

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-01-27 23:41, Etienne Millon wrote:
> * T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> [140127 23:37]:
>> $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic --color auto --display-experimental
>>   ../*.dsc
>> [...]
>> I.e., when I invoke lintian manually, I didn't see problems reported
>> by debuild. 
> 
> Hi Tong,
> 
> Lintian can check both source packages (*.dsc) or binary packages
> (*.deb). By running it on the .dsc file, you only see the results of
> source checks.
> 
> The solution to this is to invoke lintian on the .changes file.
> As a consequence it will do both source and binary checks.
> 
> Hope that helps !
> 

Bonus hint: you can often omit the package argument for lintian, when
you run it from the unpacked source tree.  In that case, lintian will
guess what (changes) file you want to process based on
"debian/changelog" (which must then be available).

~Niels