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-README file for Lintian
-=======================
-
-Disclaimer
-----------
-
-IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT THE USE OF LINTIAN:
-
- 1. Lintian is not finished yet and will probably never be. Please don't
- use Lintian as a reference for Debian policy. Lintian might miss a lot
- of policy violations while it might also report some violations by
- mistake. If in doubt, please check out the policy manuals.
-
- 2. The Debian policy gives the maintainers a lot of freedom. In most
- cases, the guidelines included in the manuals allow exceptions. Thus,
- if Lintian reports a policy violation on a package and you think this
- is such an exception (or if you think Lintian has a bug itself) please
- contact the authors of Lintian about this. There is an `override'
- file which tells Lintian about policy exceptions.
-
- 3. Please DO NOT use Lintian to file bug reports (neither single ones nor
- mass bug reports). This is done by authors of Lintian already and
- duplication of efforts and bug reports should be avoided! If you think
- a certain bug is `critical', and should be reported/fixed immediately,
- please contact the maintainer of the corresponding package and/or the
- Lintian maintainers.
-
- 4. Any feedback about Lintian is welcomed! Please send your comments to
- <lintian-maint@debian.org>.
-
-
-Running Lintian for the first time
-----------------------------------
-
-Here is what you have to do at minimum to get lintian up and running:
-
- 1. Install the `lintian' package
-
- 2. Run lintian over your packages:
-
- $ lintian <something>.deb
- $ lintian <something>.udeb
- $ lintian <something>.dsc
- $ lintian <something>.changes
-
-(Yes, Lintian is really easy to use! ;-)
-
-
-Command line options of the lintian command
--------------------------------------------
-
- Syntax: lintian [action] [options] [--] [packages] ...
-
- (Please refer to the manual page lintian(1) for details.)
-
- Actions:
- -S, --setup-lab set up static lab
- -R, --remove-lab remove static lab
- -c, --check check packages (default action)
- -C X, --check-part X check only certain aspects
- -X X, --dont-check-part X don't check certain aspects
- -u, --unpack only unpack packages in the lab
- -r, --remove remove package from the lab
- General options:
- -h, --help display short help text
- -v, --verbose verbose messages
- -V, --version display Lintian version and exit
- -d, --debug turn Lintian's debug messages ON
- --print-version print unadorned version number and exit
- Behaviour options:
- -i, --info give detailed info about tags
- -I, --display-info display "I:" tags (normally suppressed)
- -l X, --unpack-level X set default unpack level to X
- -o, --no-override ignore overrides
- --show-overrides output tags that have been overriden
- --color never/always/auto disable, enable, or enable color for TTY
- -U X, --unpack-info X specify which info should be collected
- -m, --md5sums check md5sums when processing a .changes file
- --allow-root suppress lintian's warning when run as root
- Configuration options:
- --cfg CONFIGFILE read CONFIGFILE for configuration
- --lab LABDIR use LABDIR as permanent laboratory
- --archivedir ARCHIVEDIR location of Debian archive to scan for packages
- --dist DIST scan packages in this distribution (e.g. sid)
- --section RELEASE scan packages in this section (e.g. main)
- --arch ARCH scan packages with architecture ARCH
- --root ROOTDIR use ROOTDIR instead of /usr/share/lintian
- Package selection options:
- -a, --all process all packages in distribution
- -b, --binary process only binary packages
- -s, --source process only source packages
- --udeb process only udeb packages
- -p X, --packages-file X process all files in file (special syntax!)
-
-
-Where to find more information
-------------------------------
-
-Details about the `lintian' and the `lintian-info' commands can be
-found in the manual pages lintian(1) and lintian-info(1),
-respectively.
-
-General information about Lintian and how to use it can be found in
-the `Lintian User's Manual' at
-file:/usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/index.html
-
-Weekly updated Lintian reports from all packages in the Debian
-distribution can be found at the Lintian home page at
-
- http://www.debian.org/lintian/
-
-
-Feedback
---------
-
-Any comments, critics, or suggestions about Lintian or related topics
-are highly appreciated by the authors! Please contact
-<lintian-maint@debian.org>. Thanks!
-
-
-
-Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>, Mar 14, 1998.
-Updated by Frank Lichtenheld, Apr 14, 2004 (Lintian 1.23.0).
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