Bug#617266: lintian: should not detect README.html as a doc to be registered with doc-base

[Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy@ortolo.eu>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

I have a package [1] with a README.html, which is an HTML version of a
regular README. Lintian detects it as a document to be registered with
doc-base. I think this is incorrect, because README files are not
supposed to be registered, and the fact that one is in HTML format
should not change that.

    [1] http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/deb/libasyncns/libasyncns-dev_0.8-1_amd64.deb

Could you add a check to exclude README.*, NEWS.* and changelog.* from
the possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration check?

Regards,

-- 
Tanguy Ortolo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers squeeze-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.20.1-16  The GNU assembler, linker and bina
pn  diffstat                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.8.10  Debian package development tools
ii  file                          5.04-5     Determines file type using "magic"
pn  gettext                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  intltool-debian               <none>     (no description available)
ii  libapt-pkg-perl               0.1.24+b2  Perl interface to libapt-pkg
pn  libclass-accessor-perl        <none>     (no description available)
pn  libipc-run-perl               <none>     (no description available)
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtimedate-perl              1.2000-1   collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl                   1.54-2     module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales                       2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                        2.5.7-8    on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]     5.10.1-17  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.7-8    on-line manual pager