Tag: info-document-missing-dir-section Severity: normal Certainty: certain Info: This info document has no INFO-DIR-SECTION line and no <tt>--section</tt> option is passed to <tt>install-info</tt> in the package <tt>postinst</tt> maintainer script. <tt>install-info</tt> will be unable to determine the section into which this info page should be put. The best solution is to add a line like: . @dircategory Development . to the texinfo source so that the generated info file will contain a section. See /usr/share/info/dir for sections to choose from. . Another alternative that doesn't require modifying the source is to explicitly pass a <tt>--section</tt> option to <tt>install-info</tt> in the <tt>postinst</tt> maintainer script, although in this case you will need to write the <tt>postinst</tt> yourself and not use tools like debhelper to do it for you. Ref: policy 12.2
It's been there for quite a while. It needs to be modified so that passing --section to install-info isn't enough, but is there something more that it needs besides that, or some other problem with the existing Lintian check? I assume we should drop the requirement that the maintainer scripts call install-info and indeed warn if they do, noting that the calls can be removed. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
