lintian-info

NAME

lintian-info - give detailed information about Lintian's error tags

SYNOPSIS

lintian-info [log-file] ... lintian-info --tags tag ...

DESCRIPTION

The lintian-info command either parses the output of the lintian command and gives verbose information about the listed Lintian error tags or (if given the R -t or --tags option) explains a given tag or tags. If no log-file is specified on the command line, this command expects its input on stdin. Thus, the output of lintian can either be piped through lintian-info or a log file produced by lintian can be processed with this command. (Note, that the lintian command has a command line option -i to automatically pipe its output through R lintian-info . Thus, you will rarely use this command directly.)

OPTIONS

R -t , --tags
Rather than treating them as log file names, treat any command-line options as tag names and display the descriptions of each tag.

EXIT STATUS

If R -t or --tags was given and one or more of the tags specified were unknown, this command returns the exit code 1. Otherwise, it always returns with exit code 0.

SEE ALSO

AUTHORS

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>