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

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2013-05-06 11:09, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> [...]
> 
> 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
> 
> [...]

Sounds like Lintian is following the current specification here.

"""
Index:

Index or top-level file for this document format.  Only applies to
document formats HTML and Info, and /required/ if the format is HTML or
Info.
""" [1]

~Niels

[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/robert/doc-base.git;a=blob;f=doc/doc-base.sgml;h=fabde6b111621680ecfa5502bbb9e2124c2e6d9a;hb=36765232ee802317137e53600f6380735b36e9cc#l262

Tags/markup manually removed.  Emphasis mine.