Bug#1019980: lintian: source-is-missing check for HTML is much too sensitive

2022-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:14:07 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > 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 ca

Bug#1017094: false positive source-is-missing for gtk-doc generated html documentation

2022-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:59:40PM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote: > In general, it is not a good idea to have line length it as the only > heuristic for checking source-is-missing on HTML files. I have seen this on > many packages that I have dealt with in the last few months and all of them > were

Bug#1017966: lintian: Systematic false positives for source-is-missing in r-cran-* documentation

2022-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 08:23:43AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > lintian is doing a check for overlong lines to guess for included > JavaScript in html pages (and may be more). I now realised that several > R packages are including > >img src="data:image/png;base64 > > images that were gener

Bug#1019980: lintian: source-is-missing check for HTML is much too sensitive

2022-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
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