Dear maintainer, On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:48:19 +0000 Felix Lechner <noreply@salsa.debian.org> wrote:
Bug #981268 in lintian reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/2e0f6dae25728b726bcb71aa5e198fec46b7f843
I believe there is still an edge case missing, as Python applications may have private modules in /usr/share/PACKAGENAME which also often need an egg-info/ folder.I suggest the modified regex
--- a/lib/Lintian/Check/Documentation.pm 2021-03-16 21:05:15.187252857 +0100
+++ b/lib/Lintian/Check/Documentation.pm 2021-03-16 21:07:56.039250618 +0100
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
# see Bug#904852
|| $file->dirname =~ m{templates?(?:\.d)?/}
|| ( $file->basename =~ m{\.txt$}
- && $file->dirname =~ m{^usr/lib/python3/.*\.egg-info/}s)
+ && $file->dirname =~ m{^usr/(?:lib/python3|share/$ppkg)/.*\.egg-info/}s)
|| ( $file->basename =~ m{^README}xi
&& $file->bytes =~ m{this directory}xi);
}
Cheers
Timo
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