Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 01:04:52PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation"):
> > Package: debian-policy
> > Version: 4.2.1.2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > It seems to me that the consensus is that doc-base is not actually useful and
> > so 9.10. Registering Documents using doc-base can be dropped.
> > 
> > lintian has an I: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration tag, with
> > 1872 emitted currently: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-documentation-
> > but-no-doc-base-registration.html
> > 
> I suggest that instead of abandoning it, we should bump the lintian
> message to a warning.

Is not I: (info) even lower priority than W: (warning) ?
I do not think it is displayed by default:
from lintian(1):

       -I, --display-info
           Display informational ("I:") tags as well.  They are normally suppressed.

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

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