Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous
Hi Bastien,
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> /etc should be already filtered, this is a plain bug
Sorry, I just tried to give examples for the type of files which
should not be reported, not (only) actual false positives. /etc/ seems
filtered according to
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc.html
so there is no bug wrt. to filtering /etc/.
My point is though that the reason for which /etc/ is filtered
(documenting directories I assume), also applies to /usr/ and
especially /usr/local/ (plugin directories, template directories,
theme directories, etc.). IMHO this tag causes too many false
positives currently.
I ran into it with the two cases (image set directory and some special
and non-obvious directory for local monitoring check evaluation)
inside the xymon package (not shown in the web because of too many
tags). Here's what I have in my override files (currently only in git):
xymon-client: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc usr/lib/xymon/client/local/README
xymon: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc usr/share/xymon/gifs/README
> the other one will do something
Thanks!
Regards, Axel
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