On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:51:36PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> I have just built a new package for dict-elements-19990120 to be
> FHS compliant. Lintian gives the following warnings/errors:
>
> bob:vc-/0:dict-elements>lintian dict-elements_19990120-2_i386.changes
> W: dict-elements: unknown-section Text
> E: dict-elements: unknown-priority Optional
>
> The debian/control file includes:
>
> bob:vc-/0:debian>less control
> Source: dict-elements
> Section: Text
^
> Priority: Optional
^
capitals... linux, like all good OSes, are case sensitive
> Maintainer: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
> Standards-Version: 3.0.1.1
>
> Package: dict-elements
> Section: Text
> Priority: Optional
> Architecture: all
> Description: Data regarding the Elements
>
> As an experiment, I lower-cased Text and Optional, and rebuilt the
> package. This was lintian-clean.
>
> Lintian doesn't object to other packages that use Section: Text
> and Priority: Optional.
>
> I am using Lintian v1.7, kernel 2.2.12, and potato.
>
> Bob
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