Re: Bug#39463,#39482,#39493: timidity, cdrdao, cdtool has no manpage for something

["J.H.M. Dassen" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 13:25:27 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> If lack of a manpage is a "problem", what do we gain by making a
> symlink to undocumented(7), if it still has to be kept as a "bug"?

Userfriendliness: it informs our users that the issue is known.

> On the other hand, if an upstream maintainer does not consider the lack of
> manpage as a bug (examples: most GNU packages), does not the Debian
> maintainer have the right to agree with the upstream author about it not
> being a bug?

What the policy says is that the Debian project considers it a bug (even if
upstream doesn't) and thus that it should, in principle, be fixed. It's a
severity normal bug, so there is no urgency about fixing it.

If an individual maintainer agrees with upstream, he can choose not to fix
the bug, but he should not IMO close bug reports about it.

Ray
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