Hi Holger, On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 01:51:44PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > man lintian-brush.conf explains the "per-package configuration for > lintian-brush" > and says lintian-brush.conf is a lintian-brush per-package configuration file, > which contains of a series of single key/value pairs. The configuration file lives in the package itself - there is currently no global configuration file. Would a global configuration file also be useful, in addition to in-package preferences?
The manpage is indeed fairly lacking in this aspect - I've made some improvements clarifying this for the next release. > However after reading the manpage it's still unclear to me how the format > should > exactly look like *per package*. I guess 'compat-release = stable' is a valid > key/value pair, but how to specify the package? > > (And btw, are '11' and '11.0' valid values too? :) At the moment, the only valid values are release codenames ("buster") and aliases ("testing"); I've clarified this in the manpage. Cheers, Jelmer
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