Manual: lintian-info

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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 lintian command has a command line option -i to display the same results as lintian-annotate-
       hints, so you normally do not need to pipe the output of 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 

       Richard Braakman 

       Christian Schwarz 

Lintian v2.129.0ubuntu2					 2026-04-10				   LINTIAN-ANNOTATE-HINTS(1)