Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!)

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:

>  E: epic: binary-without-manpage ircflush.epic
>  E: epic: binary-without-manpage ircserv.epic
>  E: epic: binary-without-manpage ircserv.epic
> 
>  These just don't have man pages.. 

So write some.  Policy 5.1:

| If no manual page is available for a particular program, utility or
| function and this is reported as a bug on debian-bugs, a symbolic
| link from the requested manual page to the undocumented(7) manual
| page should be provided. This symbolic link can be created from
| `debian/rules' like this:
|   ln -s ../man7/undocumented.7.gz \
|    debian/tmp/usr/man/man[1-9]/the_requested_manpage.[1-9].gz
| This manpage claims that the lack of a manpage has been reported as
| a bug, so you may only do this if it really has (you can report it
| yourself, if you like). Do not close the bug report until a proper
| manpage is available.

>  E: epic: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file DEBIAN/md5sums
>  E: epic: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file DEBIAN/postinst
>  E: epic: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file DEBIAN/postinst
> 
> How does one get this?  I'm using rules files generated with
> debmake, so everything ought to be pretty standard... no?

I don't do debmake, but IIRC, it was caused by a bug in earlier
versions of debmake, try rebuilding with the newest debmake.

-- 
James (debmake: just say no)


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