On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 22:53 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 00:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut <pet...@debian.org> writes: > > > > > It would be nice if lintian had a way to set some default options, > > > e.g., by a variable such as > > > > > > LINTIAN_OPTIONS='--color=auto -E' > > > > > > This could go into the shell initialization files or into .lintianrc. > [...] > > I think it's useful to have a variable too, since it catches the other > > things that may run lintian besides debuild. Seems like a good idea to > > me. [...] > (i.e. I think I know how to do it, I just need to actually sit down and > do it :)
Ah. Actually, it's rather more complicated than I thought, unless we assume that "default" means "in the absence of any command line option" which doesn't seem ideal. For example, if the default options string included --display-info or --display-source, one can't easily override that on a case-by-case basis. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
