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.
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/, and https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/python_eggs.html.
This screen masks the tag package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc.
The screen is present in Lintian version 2.114.163
.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the masking logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian screen python/egg/metadata.