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Bug#355032: lintian: [Should be ERROR, not warning] W: package-foo: unknown-section unknown



Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.15
> Severity: minor

> When using dh_make to generate templates, the section header many times
> is forgotten, so lintian warns:

>   W: package-foo: unknown-section unknown

> This would better be an error condition if the section does not match
> any of the official Debian sections.

This seems right to me too.  Does anyone object?  I suppose that ftpmaster
can always override, and the section portions of policy are only a should
rather than a must, but lintian does list as errors some things that are
should in Policy.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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