Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous

2018-08-07 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb wrote: > > the phrase "Please move this files to /usr/share/doc/ or remove it." > > sounds very final, but completely ignores that there are quite a lot of > > files (often named README or so) documenting the purpose or contents of > > the directory they're in. > > I agree. Bastian,

Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous

2018-07-29 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Bastien, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > /etc should be already filtered, this is a plain bug Sorry, I just tried to give examples for the type of files which should not be reported, not (only) actual false positives. /etc/ seems filtered according to

Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous

2018-07-29 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.94 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > the phrase "Please move this files to /usr/share/doc/ or remove it." > sounds very final, but completely ignores that there are quite a lot of > files (often named README or

Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous

2018-07-28 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Axel, > the phrase "Please move this files to /usr/share/doc/ or remove it." > sounds very final, but completely ignores that there are quite a lot of > files (often named README or so) documenting the purpose or contents of > the directory they're in. I agree. Bastian, you added this in

Bug#904852: lintian: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc far too overzealous

2018-07-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.94 Severity: normal Hi, the phrase "Please move this files to /usr/share/doc/ or remove it." sounds very final, but completely ignores that there are quite a lot of files (often named README or so) documenting the purpose or contents of the directory they're in.