Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:54 PM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
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> Chris Lamb wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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...
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> Gentle ping on this, Bastian? :)
Done will check only this directory in README.*
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> Regards,
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