On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 20:49:34 +0100 Vincent Danjean <vdanj...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.16.10 > Severity: important > File: /usr/bin/debuild > > debuild is passing lintian options to dpkg-buildpackage which, of course, do > not recognize these options and fail: > > [...] > > The --display-info option, after the --lintian-opts option, should not be > passed to dpkg-buildpackage but, instead, kept and passed to lintian itself. > > > Regards, > Vincent > > > [...]
FYI, dpkg-buildpackage has a --check-command + --check-option now to run lintian (with given arguments). It is available since dpkg 1.17 (i.e. stable). So technically, dpkg-buildpackage supports it (if wrapped with a --check-command). :) Thanks, ~Niels