Package: lintian Version: 2.5.1 Severity: normal I had some trouble figuring out how to put variables into ~/.lintianrc. RTFM did not quite help, since the lintian manpage does not seem to give a description of its format, although I figured out that it's probably one variable per line. So I did the try-and-error approach:
,---- | % apt-get source ed | [...] | % echo display-info > ~/.lintianrc | % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc | syntax error in configuration file: display-info | % echo "display-info 1" > ~/.lintianrc | % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc | syntax error in configuration file: display-info 1 | % echo "display-info true" > ~/.lintianrc | % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc | syntax error in configuration file: display-info true `---- At this point I almost thought resorting to UTSL would be necessary. One more try: ,---- | % echo "display-info = true" > ~/.lintianrc | % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc | % echo "display-info = 1" > ~/.lintianrc | % lintian ed_1.5-1.dsc `---- Aha! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.1-rc1-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.21.53.20110729-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.62-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1 Dpkg perl modules ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.13-13 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii unzip 6.0-5 De-archiver for .zip files lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1 Debian package development tools ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1 collection of modules that parse H ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities -- no debconf information -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/share/lintian/checks/binaries (from lintian package) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org