Bug#661808: lintian: non-obvious references to debconf specification

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.5
Severity: minor

$ lintian-info -t unknown-field-in-templates | grep -A 1 Refer
N:   Refer to Configuration management (Templates) and the debconf-devel(7)
N:   manual page for details.

If there is no hyperlink, it's not immediately obvious that 
"Configuration management" is title of the document better known as the 
debconf specification.

I noticed that because I wanted to add copyright-format to our list of 
manuals. It would share the same problem and the produced output would 
be even less helpful:

N:   Refer to Machine-readable debian/copyright file for details.

Is this something we should fix or lintian (by adding some extra code to 
private/refresh-manual-refs)? Or should it be fixed on the debian-policy 
side?

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Jakub Wilk