On 2015-02-06 23:34, Rajendra Gokhale wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, I wanted to let you know that lintian is a cool tool and > thank you all for creating and maintaining it > > If I ask Lintian to suppress a tag that is known to a later version of > Lintian but not known to the current version it will exit with an error. > This can be problematic in an environment where a package gets built on > different versions of OSes running different versions of Lintian > (potentially). Is there a recommended way to getting around such a > scenario? > > Thanks, > > Rajendra Gokhale >
Hi Rajendra, Come to think of it, have you looked at using lintian profiles to support your use case[1]? Admittedly, it would imply that you can deploy a OS/environment specific profile to all OSes/environments[2]. Besides disabling (approx. the same as suppressing) tags, you can also e.g. change the severity of tags to better reflect your policies. If it is unsuitable, please consider filing a bug for its short-comings. You are also very welcome to submit a bug for the "--list-tags" feature in lintian-info (regardless). Thanks, ~Niels [1] https://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-2.5.html [2] If location is a concern, the --include-dir lintian options allows you to pick "where" to put it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
