Bug#664520: lintian: [new check] Unusual documentation package name, foo-docs
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.5
Severity: wishlist
It turns out a few people (including me) have been using -docs for
documentation package names intead of -doc:
$ zcat Packages.gz | grep-dctrl -F Package -e '^.*-doc$' -ns Package | wc -l
2415
$ zcat Packages.gz | grep-dctrl -F Package -e '^.*-docs$' -ns Package | wc -l
42
Although I don't believe there's anything in policy about, I think it
deserves an information level tag to suggest naming the binary foo-doc
instead. Perhaps unusual-documentation-package-name.
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