Bug#1019980: lintian: source-is-missing check for HTML is much too sensitive

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 08:27:40PM +0000, Bastien Roucariès wrote:
> > > > > > source package, though I can't see how Lintian could possibly expect to
> > > > > > know that.
> > > 
> > > Are you sure it is not embdeded base64 encoded png or minified javascript* ?
> > > 
> > > If not we could try to know why it choke ?  
> > > 
> > > In this particular case, it is the source package that choke. If halibut include the name of the source
> > > in the html we could magically remove the source is missing warnings.
> > > 
> > > Another alternative if we could determine the file was compiled by halibut, we could demote to pedantic warning 
> > > and ask to repack in order to be sure to recompile from source.
> > 
> > There are far too many different HTML generators out there to handle.
> 
> We have done this for doxyen and sphinx, so maybe not for more

This is two out of how many  ? 

For example, my packages use TtH, GAPDoc, hevea, pod2html.

I do not think it is sustainable.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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