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[LecrisUT]

Something like how rpminspect bundles a viewer.html ¹ file that converts a json result to a simple web view would be nice.

For context, there is a packit/tmt plan ² that packagers can use to easily call rpmlint, and we've replicated the rpminspect viewer over there, and it would be nice if we can provide something similar for rpmlint.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect/blob/main/contrib/viewer.html ↩

2. https://github.com/packit/tmt-plans/tree/main/plans/rpmlint ↩

[danigm]

Right now rpmlint doesn't have any output format configuration, the output is done printing directly the errors. A first step could be to add some kind of configuration to output the information in a structured way, for example json, and then we can extend that option to support different formats, json, xml, html

[LecrisUT]

Indeed, on the backend rpminspect simply exports to json and the viewer.html simply reads it directly.