lintian-annotate-hints

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NAME
       lintian-annotate-hints - give detailed information about Lintian's
       error tags

SYNOPSIS
       lintian-annotate-hints [log-file...]

DESCRIPTION
       The lintian-annotate-hints command parses the EWI output of the lintian
       command and gives verbose information about the listed Lintian tags, or
       parses a Lintian override file and gives verbose information about the
       tags included.

       If no log-file is specified on the command line, this command expects
       its input on stdin. Thus, the output of lintian can either be piped
       through lintian-annotate-hints or a log file produced by lintian can be
       processed with this command.

         (Note, though, that the B<lintian> command has a command line option
       B<-i> to display the same results as B<lintian-annotate-hints>, so you
       normally do not need to pipe the output of B<lintian> through this
       command to see the extra information.)

OPTIONS
       -a, --annotate
           Read from standard input or any files specified on the command line
           and search the input for lines formatted like Lintian override
           entries.  For each one that was found, display verbose information
           about that tag.

       -h, --help
           Display usage information and exit.

       --include-dir dir
           Use dir as an additional "Lintian root".  The directory is expected
           have a similar layout to the LINTIAN_BASE (if it exists), but does
           not need to be a full self-contained root.

           Unlike lintian, lintian-annotate-hints will not load any code from
           these additional directories.

           This option may appear more than once; each time adding an
           additional directory.

       --profile prof
           Use the severities from the vendor profile prof when displaying
           tags.  If the profile name does not contain a slash, the default
           profile for that vendor is chosen.

           If not specified, annotate-lintian-hint loads the best profile for
           the current vendor.

           Please Refer to the Lintian User Manual for the full documentation
           of profiles.

       --user-dirs, --no-user-dirs
           By default, lintian will check $HOME and /etc for files supplied by
           the user or the local sysadmin (e.g. profiles).  This default can
           be disabled (and re-enabled) by using --no-user-dirs (and
           --user-dirs, respectively).

           These option can appear multiple times, in which case the of them
           to appear determines the result.

SEE ALSO
       lintian(1)

AUTHORS
       Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

       Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>

       Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>

Lintian v2.114.0ubuntu1.6         2025-05-02         LINTIAN-ANNOTATE-HINTS(1)