Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation"):
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 4.2.1.2
> Severity: normal
>
> It seems to me that the consensus is that doc-base is not actually useful and
> so 9.10. Registering Documents using doc-base can be dropped.
>
> lintian has an I: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration tag,
> with
> 1872 emitted currently:
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-documentation-
> but-no-doc-base-registration.html
>
> Note that doc-base is also mentioned in 11.5: "Web Applications should try to
> avoid storing files in the Web Document Root. Instead they should use the
> /usr/share/doc/package directory for documents and register the Web
> Application
> via the doc-base package."
The problem with doc-base is not that it is a bad idea, it's that it's
not comprehensive enough.
I suggest that instead of abandoning it, we should bump the lintian
message to a warning.
Ian.
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