Debian Bug report logs - #72846
lintian: Warn when HTML documentation is not provided

Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Yann Dirson <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:48:03 UTC

Owned by: Raphael Geissert <[email protected]>

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 1.11.4

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Darren Benham <[email protected]>:
Bug#72846; Package lintian. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Yann Dirson <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Darren Benham <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: lintian
Version: 1.11.4
Severity: wishlist

HTML is the prefered doc format.  Many formats, like texi, can be
converted to HTML.  It would be nice to warn when a document is
shipped in some other format, and exists in the source tree in a
format we can use to build HTML.

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.2.17 #1 Sun Sep 10 19:21:52 CEST 2000 i586

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                    2.10.0.26-1  The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                    1.28-1       produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                        3.28-1       Determines file type using "magic"
ii  perl-5.005 [perl5]          5.005.03-7.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting

Bug closed, send any further explanations to Yann Dirson <[email protected]> Request was from Yann Dirson <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Bug reopened, originator set to Yann Dirson <[email protected]>. Request was from Yann Dirson <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug title. Request was from Russ Allbery <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Owner recorded as Raphael Geissert <[email protected]>. Request was from Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:21:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug title to 'lintian: Warn when HTML documentation is not provided' from '[checks/files] warn when HTML doc is not provided'. Request was from Chris Lamb <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:48:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Debian Bug report logs - #72846 lintian: Warn when HTML documentation is not provided

Debian Bug report logs - #72846
lintian: Warn when HTML documentation is not provided