lintian --version (return code: 0)
Lintian v2.5.43
lintian --help (return code: 0)
Lintian v2.5.43
Syntax: lintian [action] [options] [--] [packages] ...
Actions:
-c, --check check packages (default action)
-C X, --check-part X check only certain aspects
-F, --ftp-master-rejects only check for automatic reject tags
-T X, --tags X only run checks needed for requested tags
--tags-from-file X like --tags, but read list from file
-u, --unpack only unpack packages in the lab
-X X, --dont-check-part X don't check certain aspects
General options:
-h, --help display short help text
--print-version print unadorned version number and exit
-q, --quiet suppress all informational messages
-v, --verbose verbose messages
-V, --version display Lintian version and exit
Behaviour options:
--color never/always/auto disable, enable, or enable color for TTY
--default-display-level reset the display level to the default
--display-source X restrict displayed tags by source
-E, --display-experimental display "X:" tags (normally suppressed)
--no-display-experimental suppress "X:" tags
--fail-on-warnings return a non-zero exit status if warnings found
-i, --info give detailed info about tags
-I, --display-info display "I:" tags (normally suppressed)
-L, --display-level display tags with the specified level
-o, --no-override ignore overrides
--pedantic display "P:" tags (normally suppressed)
--profile X Use the profile X or use vendor X checks
--show-overrides output tags that have been overridden
--hide-overrides do not output tags that have been overridden (default)
--suppress-tags T,... don't show the specified tags
--suppress-tags-from-file X don't show the tags listed in file X
Configuration options:
--cfg CONFIGFILE read CONFIGFILE for configuration
--no-cfg do not read any config files
--ignore-lintian-env ignore LINTIAN_* env variables
--include-dir DIR include checks, libraries (etc.) from DIR (*)
-j X, --jobs X limit the number of parallel unpacking jobs to X
--[no-]user-dirs whether to use files from user directories (*)
Options marked with (*) should be the first options if given at all.
Note that some options have been omitted, use "--help=extended" to see them
all.