As another use case for a --list-tags: In discussing things in #debian-mentors or #debian-qa it's not uncommon that I want to look up information from the long description of a tag... but first I need to guess what the tag is. The long description often has really useful rationale and links to policy, bugs or other documentation.
My current crappy solution is $ dpkg -L lintian | xargs grep -hs ^Tag: My wishlist is: $ lintian-info --list-tags | grep encoding debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-news-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding $ lintian-info -t debian-copyright-<tab><tab> debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-copyright-is-symlink (perhaps lintian-info -t could take a glob or regex as an alternative to a simple tag name) -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ [email protected] Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
