Bug#930311: lintian: Possible exception to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc
Chris Lamb:
> Hi Niels,
>
>> My question is: Should we move this exception to lintian itself and
>> stop having people automate overrides
>
> Oh, without any doubt here — the idea of automatically-generated
> overrides simply makes me squirm.
>
> (Shall we begin by cloning this bug "against" dh-r?)
>
>
> Regards,
>
Re:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/a16cd3a1c812c8894bddf9b920561eb0dd602d85
I suspect we should probably match usr/lib/R/site-library/ as a prefix
rather than an exact match. My guess is that they have a "per-package"
folder structure beneath that directory.
Thanks,
~Niels
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