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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