"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the instructions shipped with the "doc-base" package, file > /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.txt.gz , paragraph 2.3.2.1, the > "Section" field in a doc-base file should use the Debian menu sections: > >> _Section_ >> Section where the document belongs; this should follow the >> sections outlined in chapter 3.5 of "Debian Menu Policy", which >> can be found in the /usr/share/doc/menu/html >> (file:///usr/share/doc/menu/html/ch3.html#s3.5) directory. >> Required field. > > Since the allowed menu sections have recently changed (and lintian now > thoughtfully checks for this), it stands to reason that maintainers > should also be reminded to change the Section fields in their doc-base > files, ideally with the transition being completed pre-Lenny. > > Therefore, would it be possible to have Lintian run the same check on > doc-base file Section fields as it does on menu file section fields? I > know that this would certainly help me out! > > X-Debbugs-CC'ed to the doc-base maintainer in case he wants to comment. > Note, if it was *not* the intention to have doc-base follow the menu > policy transition, please reassign this bug to doc-base and retitle to > "doc-base: should explicitly list allowed values for Section field".
The main reason why I didn't do this is that there was a lot of controversy and discussion on debian-devel about using the menu categories for doc-base recently, and I was wondering if that would reach some other conclusion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
