On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:50:42AM +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Package: tiger
> Version: 1:3.2.1-24
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Currnently lines in templates have to exactly match those reported by Tiger 
> to be surpressed. This leads to multiple similar lines, for example to cause
> Tiger not to report "no password expiry date" or, for a handbuilt kernel, to
> suppress reporting of multiple unrecognised files.

Can't you use tiger.ignore to replace those files which are not matched
exactly but which you want to exclude from the reports?

> The user of regular expressions in the template files would greatly simplify
> the templates and make it easier to use the same templates on multiple
> systems.

Having regexp in templates might be tricky, since the currently
implementation just diffs the files and implementing regexp would need it to
do a line by line comparison and apply the regexps if they exist.

Regards

Javier

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