Bug#971427: lintian: false positive package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc for SNMP MIB files

[wferi@niif.hu]

Control: tags 971427 - moreinfo

"Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org> writes:

>> SNMP MIB files are generally /usr/share/snmp/mibs/*.txt, though
>> these text files aren't documentation.  Please make them exempt
>> from package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc.
>
> Totally ACK that these are false-positives. However, I am not sure
> that this is a general or widespread issue which would warrant an
> exception being made in Lintian itself.
>
> As in, compared to adding a Lintian override in your specific
> package.

Hi Chris,

Based on main/Contents-amd64, the following packages are affected:

corosync-notifyd  1
keepalived        3
pacemaker-common  1
pcs-snmp          2
libsnmp-base     13
cyrus-common      1
dnsdist           1
pdns-recursor     1

I'll certainly add overrides to my packages if Lintian doesn't make the
exception.
-- 
Regards,
Feri