Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Chris Lamb wrote:

> > the phrase "Please move this files to /usr/share/doc/ or remove it."
> > sounds very final, but completely ignores that there are quite a lot of
> > files (often named README or so) documenting the purpose or contents of
> > the directory they're in.
> 
> I agree. Bastian, you added this in #901274 — can you chime in here? I
> am not the greatest fan of this tag, and have already skipped it in some
> of my own packages which is not the best sign from a Lintian maintainer...

Gentle ping on this, Bastian? :)


Regards,

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