Package: debian-policy Version: 4.2.1.2 Severity: normal 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.
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 Note that doc-base is also mentioned in 11.5: "Web Applications should try to avoid storing files in the Web Document Root. Instead they should use the /usr/share/doc/package directory for documents and register the Web Application via the doc-base package." -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled debian-policy depends on no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy recommends: ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.7.9-1 Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> -- no debconf information