Bug#465192: lintian: Please warn on documentation referring to /usr/doc
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.45
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> Even if we've completed the /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc transition some
> time ago, there's still documentation in Debian referring to /usr/doc.
> Those should probably be fixed. On my system, this crude check:
>
> $ find /usr/share/doc -type f| grep -v [Cc]hangelog | xargs zgrep /usr/doc
>
> gives some hundred hits. There's few false positives though, like
> the policy upgrade-checklist.txt, I guess those could be excluded.
We do already check man pages, and adding README.Debian makes sense to me.
Going beyond that gets pretty hairy for possible false positives, but
README.Debian at least should be fine.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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