On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:30:41AM +0100, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:03:44AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > Also maybe a lintian test can be written to print an error on > > "Section: base". Any volunteer for this one ? > > I'd say taking 'base' out of 'known_sections' should be sufficient. > > BTW: why is the lintian 'unkown-section' tag only Type: warning, while the > 'priority-unkown' tag is Type: error ?
Because the policy manual says to look in the ftp archive to find out which sections are in use, whereas it defines the priorities explicitly. Richard Braakman