Bug#706927: lintian: doc-base-file-lacks-required-field or doc-base-file-no-index

[Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.12
Severity: whishlist

Dear Maintainer,
I have a package which ships a SINGLE html file containing a FAQ.

If I use the "Files" field to indicate this file, then lintian complains
that "doc-base-file-no-index"

but if i use the "Index" field then "doc-base-file-lacks-required-field".

Since it is a single file, I think it has no index, or it is itself its own
index.
So like in the case of .pdf files or so, the Index field shouldn't be required.


Bye

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8.8a (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                        2.22-8
ii  bzip2                           1.0.6-4
ii  diffstat                        1.55-3
ii  file                            1:5.11-3
ii  gettext                         0.18.1.1-10
ii  hardening-includes              2.3
ii  intltool-debian                 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                 0.1.27
ii  libarchive-zip-perl             1.30-6
ii  libc-bin                        2.13-38
ii  libclass-accessor-perl          0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                   0.31-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                    1.16.10
ii  libemail-valid-perl             0.190-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl            0.03-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                 0.92-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl          0.33-1+b1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl        0.06~01-2
ii  libtimedate-perl                1.2000-1
ii  liburi-perl                     1.60-1
ii  locales                         2.17-0experimental2
ii  man-db                          2.6.3-3
ii  patchutils                      0.3.2-1.1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]       5.14.2-21
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.14.2-21
ii  t1utils                         1.37-2

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.10
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.69-2
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl    <none>
pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>
ii  man-db                 2.6.3-3
ii  xz-utils [lzma]        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

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