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

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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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Subject: Bug#72846: lintian: could warn when HTML doc is not provided
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.11.4
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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 




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