Hello Andrey,

On Thu 11 Oct 2018 at 12:57PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

> It seems to me that the consensus is that doc-base is not actually useful and
> so 9.10. Registering Documents using doc-base can be dropped.

We shouldn't drop it because then the doc-base registrations in existing
packages would be undocumented.

Instead, if there is indeed consensus, we should change it so that it
no longer says that doc-base registration is recommended.

> lintian has an I: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration tag, 
> with
> 1872 emitted currently: 
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-documentation-
> but-no-doc-base-registration.html

If we make the change, Lintian should probably stop emitting the tag.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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