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Bug#653910: lintian: please detect and warn about *.chm (MS Windows HtmlHelp Data) in source/binary packages



Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Please detect and warn about *.chm files. The file program says these
are "MS Windows HtmlHelp Data" and they all begin with the 4 bytes
"ITSF", which is the magic of the container format. CHM files are mainly
produced by proprietary, Windows-specific software. They are also mainly
consumed by Windows. There is Linux software to read them and an
incomplete FreePascal related project to create them, but any examples
in source packages are likely to be created by the proprietary Microsoft
software and are probably missing the source HTML and associated files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help

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pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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