Louis-Philippe Véronneau pushed to branch master at lintian / lintian
Commits:
3b5afcf8 by Dima Kogan at 2025-09-27T12:38:39-04:00
Documented --debug
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f7c2c6e2 by Louis-Philippe Véronneau at 2025-09-27T12:49:32-04:00
adjust phrasing in the newly documented debug entries
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9f7a50ad by Dima Kogan at 2025-09-27T12:51:37-04:00
Improved documentation for lintian-override files
Closes: #1077709
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2 changed files:
- bin/lintian
- man/lintian.pod
Changes:
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bin/lintian
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@@ -1010,6 +1010,7 @@ General options:
--print-version print unadorned version number and exit
-q, --quiet suppress all informational messages
-v, --verbose verbose messages
+ -d, --debug debug messages
-V, --version display Lintian version and exit
Behavior options:
--color never/always/auto disable, enable, or enable color for TTY
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man/lintian.pod
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@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ In the configuration file, this option is enabled by using
B<verbose>
variable. The B<verbose> and B<quiet> variables may not both appear
in the config file.
+=item B<-d>, B<--debug>
+
+Display debug messages.
+
+This option implies B<--verbose>.
+
=item B<-V>, B<--version>
Display lintian version number and exit.
@@ -562,14 +568,20 @@ Utility scripts used by the other lintian scripts.
=back
For binary packages, Lintian looks for overrides in a file named
-I<usr/share/lintian/overrides/E<lt>packageE<gt>> inside the binary
-package, where I<E<lt>packageE<gt>> is the name of the binary
-package. For source packages, Lintian looks for overrides in
+I<usr/share/lintian/overrides/E<lt>packageE<gt>> inside the binary package,
+where I<E<lt>packageE<gt>> is the name of the binary package. This is usually
+created automatically by debhelper from the
+I<debian/E<lt>packageE<gt>.lintian-overrides> file.
+
+For source packages, Lintian looks for overrides in
I<debian/source/lintian-overrides> and then in
I<debian/source.lintian-overrides> if the first file is not found.
The first path is preferred. See the Lintian User's Manual for the
syntax of overrides.
+Lintian errors in automatically-generated packages (such as I<xxx-dbgsym>) and
+in the I<changes> file are currently not overrideable.
+
=head1 CONFIGURATION FILE
The configuration file can be used to specify default values for some
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