Re: lintian usage and inconsistence problem

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:34:20 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:

>>> $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic --color auto --display-experimental
>>>   ../*.dsc
>>> [...]
>>> I.e., when I invoke lintian manually, I didn't see problems reported
>>> by debuild.
>> 
>> 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....
>> 
> Bonus hint: you can often omit the package argument for lintian, when
> you run it from the unpacked source tree. ...

Thanks everyone for your helps. 

I run my above lintian with and without "../*.changes", but the results 
are all the same. They all are the same as that of "../*.dsc". I.e., 
still missing info. 

Any ideas? 

Thanks