Hi, On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 5:48 PM Thorsten Glaser <t...@debian.org> wrote: > > less context may actually > be enough to identify the issue in question, as is here, where the line > number, which is a more fragile identifier, is not needed.
We may be able to offer a command line option to turn off the line numbers, but the line numbers are needed when parsing text to prevent the issuance of duplicate hints, which now cause Lintian to croak. At first glance, the line numbers seemed like a customer-friendly way to distinguish hints, but I see your point. (Many more hints are fixed than overridden.) Would it help for your override issue to relegate the line numbers to the end of the context? Thanks! Kind regards Felix Lechner