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18 .TH LINTIAN-INFO 1 "August 16, 2006" "Debian GNU/Linux"
23 lintian-info \- give detailed information about Lintian's error tags
30 .B lintian-info \-\-tags
38 command parses the output of the
40 command and gives verbose information about the listed Lintian error
41 tags, parses a Lintian override file and gives verbose information about
42 the tags included, or (if given the
43 .BR \-t " or " \-\-tags
44 option) explains a given tag or tags.
46 If no log-file is specified on the command line, this command expects
47 its input on stdin. Thus, the output of
49 can either be piped through
51 or a log file produced by
53 can be processed with this command. (Note, that the
55 command has a command line option
57 to automatically pipe its output through
59 Thus, you will rarely use this command directly.)
63 .BR \-a ", " \-\-annotate
64 Read from standard input or any files specified on the command line and
65 search the input for lines formatted like Lintian override entries. For
66 each one that was found, display verbose information about that tag.
70 Rather than treating them as log file names, treat any command-line
71 options as tag names and display the descriptions of each tag.
76 .BR \-t " or " \-\-tags
77 was given and one or more of the tags specified were unknown, this command
78 returns the exit code 1. Otherwise, it always returns with exit code 0.
84 Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
86 Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>