Lintian tag: package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc

Type: information

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

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.

Visibility: info
Show-Always: no
Check: documentation

Screen: python/egg/metadata
Advocates: "Scott Kitterman" <debian@kitterman.com>
Reason: The folders XXX.dist-info/ and XXX.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.

Read more in
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,
and Bug#1003913.

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