<html><head></head><body><div>On Thu, 2023-05-18 at 12:13 -0700, Mike Swanson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>...</div><div>In order to resolve lintian reports in the Lazarus source package, the<br></div><div>precompiled Windows help files (*.chm format) were removed and the package<br></div><div>reuploaded.</div></blockquote><div>Yes these files were removed from the source package. This was intentional not only to remove lintian warning but also to force using doct build during the lazarus build process.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> However, these files are actually essential to Lazarus's ability<br></div><div>to display help via the built-in LHelp program, which is launched via the Help<br></div><div>menu in the application. Without these files, Lazarus is unable to display<br></div><div>help through this mechanism. <br></div></blockquote><div>You can find them in lazarus-doc-2.2 package. If any is missing, please report it here.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>Instead of removing the files, I would recommend shutting up Lintian through<br></div><div>any possible means, if there is a way to make an exception or teach Lintian<br></div><div>how to do an exception for that particular warning.<br></div></blockquote><div>It is possible to override lintian errors, but we don't think this is the right way to go. Documentation is subject of a dedicated package and is built from source documentation. If any file is missing, please report it here and we will see how to fix that.</div><div><br></div><div>Same for FPC documentation, it is packaged in a separate and dedicated package.</div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><pre>Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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