Package: lintian Version: 2.102.0~bpo10+1 Severity: normal Hi,
The case is software that provides, for example, html docs, and that opens these docs using the standard F1 (file bar help) interface. Such docs should of course also be present in /usr/share/doc. As I see it, the question is whether the files should actually exist in their upstream location--which in Debian translates to /usr/share/foo/bar and have these docs linked to /usr/share/doc, or whether they should be moved to /usr/share/doc and be linked back to where the software expects them. Option three is maintaining a patch for a Debian-specific location, but I don't think that's the right solution. So, should Lintian not warn about package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc if the package links the assets to /usr/share/doc, or should the Lintian information output recommend the inverse case (moving the docs to /usr/share/doc and linking them back to where the software expects them)? I leave it to you :-) Cheers, Nicholas -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.6 APT prefers stable-debug APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.74-mainline-soft-realtime (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-16 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9.2~deb10u1 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii file 1:5.35-4+deb10u1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.20-1~bpo10+1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b2 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.23-1 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.09-1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.57-2 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.82-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-1 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004000-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.56-1 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.005+ds-1+b1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.005+ds-1+b1 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.10-1 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b6 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.11-3+b1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.6-1+b1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.20-1 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2+deb10u1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1 ii lzip 1.21-3 ii lzop 1.03-4+b1 ii man-db 2.8.5-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.28.1-6+deb10u1 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii unzip 6.0-23+deb10u1 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1 -- no debconf information
