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# `doc-base-file-unknown-format`

The `Format` field in this `doc-base` control file declares an unsupported format.

Recognized formats are `HTML`, `Text`, `PDF`, `PostScript`, `Info`, `DVI`, and `DebianDoc-SGML`.

All of those are case-insensitive.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Format sections (Section 2.3.2.2) in the Debian doc-base Manual

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