Hello Niels, Thanks. I will look at using this feature. I think it will suit my needs. Nevertheless I have filed a feature request for the --list-tags feature since I believe that has its utility in other scenarios.
Thanks again, Rajendra On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
