Bug#846863: /usr/bin/debuild: debuild: pass lintian options to dpkg-buildpackage

[Niels Thykier]

On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 20:49:34 +0100 Vincent Danjean <vdanjean at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.16.10
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/bin/debuild
> 
>   debuild is passing lintian options to dpkg-buildpackage which, of course, do
> not recognize these options and fail:
> 
> [...]
> 
>   The --display-info option, after the --lintian-opts option, should not be
> passed to dpkg-buildpackage but, instead, kept and passed to lintian itself. 
> 
> 
>   Regards,
>     Vincent
> 
> 
> [...]

FYI, dpkg-buildpackage has a --check-command + --check-option now to run
lintian (with given arguments).  It is available since dpkg 1.17 (i.e.
stable).  So technically, dpkg-buildpackage supports it (if wrapped with
a --check-command). :)

Thanks,
~Niels