Hi Jesse, On 09/04/26 8:36 pm, Jesse Rhodes wrote: > Thanks for looking at this! > > I can see what you mean about that part of the manual. I'd be glad to > take a look at rewriting it, probably closer to the end of the month.
Sure! > But also, doesn't it seem odd that lintian needs a line number specified > for binary file contents? Seems like I completely skipped reading the tag and did not pay attention to the actual output and ascertain if it even makes sense. What you say sounds perfectly reasonable to me. It makes little/no sense to emit line number here - once again, I don't know the line of thought the former maintainer had while adding this. In any case, I've opened a MR https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/695 to drop printing line number and waiting for another maintainer to give a go-ahead. Best, Nilesh
