On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:02:43AM +0200, Wouter Koolen-Wijkstra wrote: > Dear Lintian Maintainer, > > Just a curious question: what is the origin of the name lintian? I could > not find this information in the User Manual.
Don't know for sure, but I suppose it is a samentrekking of 'lint' (automated style checker for C programs, see lint(1)) and Debian. Hence, lint-ian, lintian. Don't know why lint is called lint though... --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
