Package: lintian Version: 1.23.30 Severity: normal A previously lintian-free package has suddenly started generating a doc-base format error:
$ lintian -i /opt/debian/qof/qof_0.7.2-1_amd64.changes E: libqof-doc: doc-base-file-no-format qof-www:20 N: N: A format section of this doc-base control file didn't specify a N: format. Each section after the first must specify a format. N: N: Refer to Debian doc-base Manual section 2.3.2.2 for details. N: E: libqof-doc: doc-base-file-no-format qof:20 This is the current Debian package and there is no lintian error reported for this version and no error was reported when the package was originally uploaded. http://lintian.debian.org/reports/mNeil_Williams.html The doc-base file in question is: Document: qof-www Title: Query Object Framework Introduction Author: Neil Williams Abstract: Query Object Framework Introduction QOF, the Query Object Framework, provides a set of C Language utilities for performing generic structured complex queries on a set of data held by a set of C/C++ objects. . This introduction is a copy of the QOF website content, explaining Why QOF exists, how to develop packages using QOF, generating examples, QOF roadmap, goals, status and links to other related www sites, including translation support. . Homepage: http://qof.sourceforge.net/ Section: Apps/Programming Format: HTML Index: /usr/share/doc/libqof-doc/html/index.html Files: /usr/share/doc/libqof-doc/html/* The doc-base manual specifies the format as: Document: doc-base Title: Debian doc-base Manual Author: Christian Schwarz Abstract: This manual describes what doc-base is and how it can be used to manage online manuals on Debian systems. Section: Apps/Programming Format: DebianDoc-SGML Files: /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.sgml.gz Format: Text Files: /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.txt.gz Format: HTML Index: /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html Files: /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/*.html Allowing for changes to prevent other errors (like correcting the file paths etc.), I cannot see how my current file is wrong. I discovered this when trying to create a new -doc package - nothing I do resolves this error. --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 Debian Release: lenny/sid 500 unstable www.linux.codehelp.co.uk 500 unstable www.emdebian.org 500 unstable ftp.uk.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ===============================================-+-============== perl | 5.8.8-7 libdigest-md5-perl | OR perl (>> 5.8) | 5.8.8-7 dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.17) | 1.14.4 file | 4.20-8 binutils | 2.17cvs20070426-7 diffstat (>= 1.27-1) | 1.43-2 man-db (>= 2.3.20-1) | 2.4.4-3 gettext (>= 0.16) | 0.16.1-1 intltool-debian | 0.35.0+20060710.1 libparse-debianchangelog-perl (>= 0.6) | 1.0-1 -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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