Miguel Angel Ruiz Manzano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm maintaining a documentation package (cfi). After I adopted it, I did
> the required changes in debian/*, but I tested that it wasn't "lintian
> clear". The output:
> E: cfi-en: doc-base-file-references-missing-file cfi-en:8
> /usr/share/doc/cfi-en/html/*.htm{,l}
> N:
> N: One of the files referenced in an Index or Files field in this
> N: doc-base control file does not exist in the package. The doc-base
> N: control files should be installed by the package that provides the
> N: documents they are registering.
> N:
> The error appeared in debian/cfi-en.doc-base :
> Format: HTML
> Files: /usr/share/doc/cfi-en/html/*.htm{,l}
> Index: /usr/share/doc/cfi-en/html/index.html
Yeah, the doc-base specification doesn't say that it permits {}, so
lintian assumes that it doesn't.
> My intuition guided me to do the following:
> Format: HTML
> Files: /usr/share/doc/cfi-en/html/*.htm
> Files: /usr/share/doc/cfi-en/html/*.html
I think you shouldn't repeat the Files: and instead just list multiple
file specifications on the Files line (which can be continued like a mail
header if need be). Other than that, yes, this is correct.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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