Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2018-10-12 10:16, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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.

I believe you've misunderstood - Ian is suggesting *raising* the level 
of the tag, not lowering it.

Regards,

Adam