package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc
This package ships a documentation file outside /usr/share/doc
Documentation files are normally installed inside /usr/share/doc
.
If this file doesn't describe the contents or purpose of the directory
it is in, please consider moving this file to /usr/share/doc/
or maybe even removing it. If this file does describe the contents
or purpose of the directory it is in, please add a lintian override.
Severity: | info |
Experimental: | false |
Screens
- python/egg/metadata
-
The folders
XXX.dist-info/
andXXX.egg-info/
hold metadata for Python modules. Those files are not documentation even though some of their names carry the.txt
file extension.Python modules can be both public and private.
"Scott Kitterman" debian@kitterman.com
See also: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/#the-dist-info-directory, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/#id16, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0610/, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0639/, https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/python_eggs.html, Bug#1003913
See also
- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag