Lintian User's Manual

This manual describes Lintian, the Debian package checker.

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. About Lintian
1.2. The intention of Lintian
1.3. Design issues
1.4. Disclaimer

2. Getting started

2.1. Installing Lintian

2.2. Running lintian

2.3. Lintian Tags

2.4. Overrides

2.4.1. Format of override files
2.4.2. Documenting overrides

2.5. Vendor Profiles

2.5.1. Rules for profile names and location
2.5.2. Profile syntax and semantics

3. Advanced usage

3.1. How Lintian works
3.2. The laboratory
3.3. Distribution directory

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