Bug#894690: lintian: false positives for privacy-breach-generic when Mallard docs have a <link>
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.80
Severity: normal
Running Lintian against evolution reports lots of instances of
privacy-breach-generic, for example:
> usr/share/help/C/evolution/xinclude-filter-vfolder-conditions.xml [<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550796#c10";>] (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550796#c10)
> usr/share/help/C/evolution/xinclude-filter-vfolder-conditions.xml [<link href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular_expression";>] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular_expression)
These are false positives: in Mallard XML, <link> is a clickable link that
will not be followed automatically, corresponding to <a> in HTML.
Mallard can be detected reasonably reliably by looking for
qr{ xmlns="http://projectmallard\.org/1\.0/"} in the first few lines.
Regards,
smcv
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