Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.46 > > Hi, > > Lintian produces a warning "unknown-section base", but the description of > that > warning is: > > | The `Section:' field in this package's control file is not one of > | the sections in use on the ftp archive. Valid sections are > | currently admin, base, comm, devel, doc, editors, electronics, > | embedded, games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, > | libdevel, libs, mail, math, misc, net, news, oldlibs, otherosfs, > | perl, python, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, and > | x11. > > As you can see, "base" is clearly there, and so is it in policy 2.4. > > The list of affected packages is here: > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/tags/unknown-section.html
lintian is slightly ahead of Policy, but base is gone; ftpmaster has already moved all packages out of base and it will be removed from the next Policy release. Please change the section. Thanks for catching the incorrect long description of the tag. I'll fix that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
