lintian-annotate-hints - give detailed information about Lintian's error tags

       Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

       Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>

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

Lintian v2.121.2ubuntu1.1                          2025-05-02                          LINTIAN-ANNOTATE-HINTS(1)

       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.)

       lintian-annotate-hints - give detailed information about Lintian's error tags

-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.

lintian(1)

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