NAME

       lintian-brush - automatically fix lintian issues

SYNOPSIS

       lintian-brush [-h] [--no-update-changelog] [--version] [--list-fixers] [--list-tags] [--diff] [TAGS [TAGS
       ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       lintian-brush automatically applies a set of fixes for common lintian issues, adds the relevant changelog
       entries and commits the changes to the local version control system.

       The  tool's  philosophy is to fix any issues for which it knows a correct fix, and to back off if it does
       not.

   positional arguments:
       TAGS   Lintian tag for which to apply fixers.

   optional arguments:
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       --no-update-changelog
              Whether to update the changelog.

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

       --list-fixers
              List available fixers.

       --list-tags
              List lintian tags for which fixers are available.

       --fixers-dir DIRECTORY
              Override the fixers directory.

       --diff After running all fixers, display the changes made as a single unified diff.

       --modern
              Use features that require packages that are not yet available in Debian stable.

       --identity
              Print the identity (name and e-mailaddress) that lintian-brush will use when  committing  changes,
              and exit.

       --disable-net-access
              Do not attempt to use the network to e.g. retrieve additional package metadata from hosting sites,
              or to check whether a homepage is also available over HTTPS.

       --dry-run
              Run fixers but do not actually make changes to the repository. Useful in particular in combination
              with --diff.

              Note  that  this  currently will create a temporary clone of the repository, which may be slow for
              large repositories.

       --verbose
              Be more verbose. For example, print list of fixers that was run and print  tracebacks  for  failed
              fixers.

       --uncertain, --yolo
              Make  changes  with  lower certain than normal. This will potentially fix more issues, but is more
              likely to get things wrong. If changes with lower certainty were made, lintian-brush will let  you
              know in its output.

       --allow-reformatting
              Allow reformatting of files that are being changed, so long as this does not affect the semantics.
              This could mean stripping whitespace, but in some cases could also mean stripping comments.

WRITING AND DEBUGGING FIXERS

       Fixer scripts for lintian-brush can be found under /usr/share/lintian-brush/fixers.

       Lintian-brush  normally  takes  care  of  making  sure  that the working tree doesn't contain any pending
       changes,  of  reverting  changes  when  a  fixer  fails  and  of  committing  the  changes  and  updating
       debian/changelog if necessary.

       However,  for  testing  purposes,  you  can  also run the scripts directly in a packaging repository. See
       /usr/share/doc/lintian-brush/README.md.gz (section "Writing new fixers") for details about  the  expected
       behaviour from fixer scripts.

ENVIRONMENT

       DEB_UPDATE_CHANGELOG
              Used  to  control  whether  the  changelog  should  be  updated, depending on whether it is set to
              "leave", "update" or "auto". The --update-changelog and --no-update-changelog  arguments  override
              this.

       DEB_COMPAT_RELEASE
              Oldest Debian release to stay compatible with.

       UDD_URL
              postgresql  connection  string  to  use  to connect to UDD. Defaults to the public UDD mirror; see
              https://udd-mirror.debian.net/ for details.

EXAMPLES

       $ lintian-brush --list-tags
              List all lintian tags for which fixers are available.

       $ lintian-brush
              Run all fixers in the current Debian package.

SEE ALSO

       lintian-brush.conf(5) apply-multiarch-hints(1) lintian(1)

AUTHORS

       Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>

lintian-brush 0.1                                 October 2018                                  LINTIAN-BRUSH(1)