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Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!)



On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 11:52:00AM -0800, David Welton wrote:
> I've got a question, which I'll post to the list in the hope that it
> will shed light on similiar reports that other people have received.
> 
>  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..  Is there some way to include taht
> in the packaging information so that the various scripts will overlook
> it?

A known bug still is a bug. ;-) 

Per policy every executable must have a man page. You can include links
from the missing manpage to undocumented.7.gz , but that doesn't avoid
the bug report, in fact the links can be added only _after_ the bug has
been reported.

--
Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental			Univ. de La Laguna


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