Bug#877802: lintian: Please include file name and line number in output

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Felix,

> Mentioning source files and line numbers, on the other hand, requires
> a retooling in most checks.

Don't worry, I think we are talking about exactly the same thing.

I have a (very old) branch that starts to do this but I'm sure you
will get around to this before me though.

If it helps, my plan was that we call "tag" with many more arguments
which all end up in said metadata, but each tag had a "to_string"
method (or similar) that would render it into the existing flat,
plaintext string... both for the benefit of retaining command-line
conciseness but also for the benefit of existing overrides and to
roll this out over many many releases.

(As you imply, context is important to disambiguate points to filename
and — optionally — line number combinations in a source or binary
package.)


Regards,

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