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If you want to check the full Debian distribution with Lintian, you
have to set up the LINTIAN_DIST
variable in the configuration
file (or as environment variable). Then, you have to run lintian
-S
to set up the laboratory and
to create lists of all binary and source packages in the
distribution. (Note, that this might take some time…)
After that, you can either check single packages simply be running
$ lintian foo(without path or extension for the package foo) or check the whole distribution with
$ lintian --all
Since Lintian needs an up-to-date list of packages in the
distribution, you'll have to rerun
the lintian -S
command
whenever the distribution directory has been changed. (But
there is no need to remove the laboratory in this situation:
Lintian is smart enough to only re-unpack packages that have
been changed.)