LINTIAN

# `package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc`

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.

Severity: | `info`
Experimental: | `false`

## Screens

python/egg/metadata

  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.

  "Scott Kitterman" debian@kitterman.com

  See also: 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, Bug#1003913

## See also

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag