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Package: lintian
Version: 2.140.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
lintian looks for documentation outside /usr/share/doc and emits the
package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc tag if it finds
some. Of course there are some files that might look like documentation
but are actually in the right place and so should not cause this tag to
be emitted.
One such set of files are in the `dist-info` directory of a python
module, where various pieces of metadata that represent how the module
was built, its dependencies (for the Python world) and licence data are
stored. For example:
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/python_debian-1.1.1.dist-info
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/python_debian-1.1.1.dist-info/INSTALLER
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/python_debian-1.1.1.dist-info/METADATA
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/python_debian-1.1.1.dist-info/top_level.txt
However, lintian has started flagging these files with
package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc.
I: python3-debian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc
[usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/python_debian-1.1.1.dist-info/top_level.txt]
N:
N: This package ships a documentation file outside /usr/share/doc
N: Documentation files are normally installed inside /usr/share/doc.
N:
N: If this file doesn't describe the contents or purpose of the directory it
N: is in, please consider moving this file to /usr/share/doc/ or maybe even
N: removing it. If this file does describe the contents or purpose of the
N: directory it is in, please add a lintian override.
N:
N: Visibility: info
N: Show-Always: no
N: Check: documentation
N:
N: Screen: python/egg/metadata
N: Advocates: "Scott Kitterman" <[email protected]>
N: Reason: The folders XXX.dist-info/ and XXX.egg-info/ hold metadata for
N: Python modules. Those files are not documentation even though
N: some of their names carry the .txt file extension.
N:
N: Python modules can be both public and private.
N:
N: Read more in
N:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/#the-dist-info-directory,
N: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/#id16,
N: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0610/,
N: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0639/,
N: https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/python_eggs.html,
N: and Bug#1003913.
(I leave the details of the intended streen in the output.)
This is a regression - up until recently, lintian did not complain about
these text files within the Python module definition.
thanks for your work on lintian!
Stuart
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.141.0
Done: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated lintian
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:38:47 -0400
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.141.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
Closes: 1017064 1145776 1147142 1147187 1147483
Changes:
lintian (2.141.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* Remove deprecated XS-Python-Version and X-Python-Version fields
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Lintian::Screen::Python::Egg::Metadata - Do not check for `WHEEL` in
`dist-info` (Closes: #1147187)
* Lintian::Check::Documentation - Drop `dist-info` related files from
`NOT_DOCUMENTATION_FILE_REGEXES` and fix condition for exclusion of these.
Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]>
* Rename Golang/ImportPath.pm -> Golang/ModulePath.pm to incorporate for
more module path related checks
* new tags: "go-library-package-does-not-include-version" and
"go-source-package-does-not-include-version" (Closes: #1147142)
* new tag: deprecated-debian-control-field (Closes: #1145776)
* Change severity level of `no-dep5-copyright` to `warning` (Closes:
#1147483)
* Unknown.pm, data: Add XB- prefixes for binary stanza fields in `data/` and
remove XB-* prefix in known binary fields checking for unknown fields
(Closes: #1017064)
* tags/tests/checks: Minor fixes in URLs (See: #1146466)
.
[ Scott Talbert ]
* Add more GHC path exclusions to RPATH check
.
[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Trim spelling text with builtin::trim
* Remove unused ELF section header fields
* Drop bignum for the ELF section Size decoding
.
[ Sylvestre Ledru ]
* Precompile the provider regexes for Javascript/Embedded.pm, Php/Embedded.pm
and Php/Pear/Embedded.pm.
* Documentation.pm: match the file name lists as compiled regexes
* Spelling.pm: gate the multi-word corrections on a single regex
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