Package: lintian Version: 2.5.99 Severity: normal In #878609, xfonts packages were reclassified to be in the x11 section, resulting in the wrong-section-according-to-package-name tag being issued if they go to the fonts section. This was based on the text in https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/, namely:
X Window System software X servers, libraries, fonts, window managers, terminal emulators and many related applications. However, this is not what (essentially) anyone does: wanderer:~$ grep-aptavail -F Package -s Section -r ^xfonts- | sort | uniq -c 73 Section: fonts 1 Section: non-free/fonts 2 Section: x11 Given that packages.debian.org also says: Fonts Font packages. with no qualifications or exceptions for X fonts, I don't think it makes sense to tag all of these packages and ask them to change. Given existing practice in the archive, if anything it seems like it would be better to standardize the other direction and fix packages.debian.org to remove "fonts" from the definition of the x11 section. I think this also fits the general classification rubric of preferring the narrower, less general section when a package could fall into multiple sections. (I'm not sure where to report the packages.debian.org bug. Do you know?) -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-4 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-7 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.63-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.72+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.4-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-7 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1 -- no debconf information