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=head1 NAME

lintian-info - give detailed information about Lintian's error tags

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<lintian-info> [I<log-file>...]

B<lintian-info> B<--tags> I<tag> ...

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The B<lintian-info> command parses the output of the B<lintian>
command and gives verbose information about the listed Lintian error
tags, parses a Lintian override file and gives verbose information
about the tags included, or (if given the B<-t> or B<--tags> option)
explains a given tag or tags.

If no log-file is specified on the command line, this command expects
its input on stdin. Thus, the output of B<lintian> can either be piped
through B<lintian-info> or a log file produced by B<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-info>, so you will not normally need to pipe the output of
B<lintian> into this command.)


=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=item B<-a>, B<--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.

=item B<-h>, B<--help>

Display usage information and exit.

=item B<--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
than vendor is chosen.

If not specified, B<lintian-info> loads the best profile for the
current vendor.

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

=item B<-t>, B<--tags>

Rather than treating them as log file names, treat any command-line
options as tag names and display the descriptions of each tag.

=back

=head1 EXIT STATUS

If B<-t> or B<--tags> was given and one or more of the tags specified
were unknown, this command returns the exit code 1.  Otherwise, it
always returns with exit code 0.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<lintian(1)>

=head1 AUTHORS

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>

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

=cut

