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
              Print list of fixers that was run and print tracebacks for failed fixers.

       --uncertain
              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.

       UDD_URL
              postgresql connection string to use to connect to UDD. Defaults to the  public  UDD
              mirror; see htpts://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>