LINTIAN-SSG(1)

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version 1.0.4build1 · 2 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ LINTIAN-SSG — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're learning lintian-ssg 💅 this is section 1 of the manual (User Commands, iykyk), and it's literally the static site generator for lintian-explain-tags. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

lintian-ssg — the static site generator for lintian-explain-tags. it builds the website, you build the vibes. periodt. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lintian-ssg [OPTION]...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea: lintian-ssg generates a static web site for Lintian tags' explanations. iconic behavior fr fr.

By default, it will call lintian-explain-tags in a subprocess — except if you hand it the --tags-file option, in which case it doesn't do that. noted. 📝

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --base-url=URL — the URL, including the scheme, where the root of the website is gonna live. this gets used in the sitemap, the canonical link of each page, and the robots.txt. so like, get it right bestie 🫶
  • --footer=TEXT — the TEXT you want added to the footer. inline Markdown elements will be parsed, so you can be a little fancy with it ✨
  • --lintian-version=V — overrides Lintian's version in the output with V. a lil cosmetic surgery for the version number 💅
  • --manual-file=FILE — reads Lintian's manual from FILE. (default "/usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html") 📖
  • --no-sitemap — disables sitemap.xml.gz generation (and, because of that, robots.txt generation too). no sitemap, no robots, simple as 😌
  • -o, --output-dir=DIR — the path of the directory DIR where the generated website gets output. (default "out") 🗂️
  • --stats — displays some statistics. numbers! we love numbers 📊
  • --tags-file=FILE — reads Lintian tags from FILE (in JSON format). 🍓
  • --debug — prints stack traces on errors. for when you need to see the whole crime scene 🔍
  • -h, --help — shows this help and exits. the classic 🫶
  • --version — shows version and exits. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Nicolas Peugnet <nicolas@club1.fr>

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Use the issue tracker at <https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian-ssg>.

fr fr, if something's broken, go tell them there — not to me, I'm just the messenger 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

lintian(1), lintian-explain-tags(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! you ate that. this was lintian-ssg v1.0.4build1, from February 2026 — go forth and generate static sites like the main character you are 💜✨

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