On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 20:23:18 +0200 Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 12:14:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Package: lintian > > Version: 2.115.3 > > Severity: normal > > > > Lintian issues these errors for putty 0.77-1: > > > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/AppendixA.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/AppendixB.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/AppendixE.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter10.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter2.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter3.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter4.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter5.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter7.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter8.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter9.html] > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/IndexPage.html] > > > > This is pretty oversensitive. Firstly, it's HTML, which is still often > > enough written by hand anyway. As it happens, these particular HTML > > files are generated from halibut input that's also provided in the > > source package, though I can't see how Lintian could possibly expect to > > know that. > > Dear Lintian maintainers, > > This test is causing hundreds of false positive and should be disabled as > soon as possible. This is a huge waste of time for everybody. > > If you need help with that, please tell me, I have worked on lintian in the > past.
Dear Lintian maintainers, I cannot offer the same help as ballombe, but I also find it would help to disable these errors. At least, could they be "demoted" to warnings? Thanks in advance, Santiago
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