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Re: Submitting bugs ? (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)



On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:30:41AM +0100, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:03:44AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > Also maybe a lintian test can be written to print an error on
> > "Section: base".  Any volunteer for this one ?
> 
> I'd say taking 'base' out of 'known_sections' should be sufficient.
> 
> BTW: why is the lintian 'unkown-section' tag only Type: warning, while the
> 'priority-unkown' tag is Type: error ?

Because the policy manual says to look in the ftp archive to find out
which sections are in use, whereas it defines the priorities explicitly.

Richard Braakman


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