On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 05:43:39PM +0200, Joel Rosdahl wrote: > Good morning, > > I get this error from Lintian: > > E: gbuffy: bad-link-to-undocumented-manpage usr/X11R6/man/man1/gbuffy.1x.gz > N: > N: The symbolic link should reference `../man[237]/undocumented.[237].gz' > N: for manual pages in /usr/share/man or > N: `../../../man/man[237]/undocumented.[237].gz' for manual pages in > N: /usr/X11R6/man. > N: > > The link, however, looks like this: > > lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1999-08-02 12:39 usr/X11R6/man/man1/gbuffy.1x.gz -> ../../../man/man7/undocumented.7.gz If I follow all the dots accordingly, this would link back to "/usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz" but according to the FHS, man pages are supposed to be in /usr/share/man, not /usr/man... not that the appropriate package is installing /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz yet... but that's a problem with said package, lintian is just checking FHS. > > ..which seems fine to me. Is this a Lintian bug or do I need > glasses? (I didn't see any report about it in the BTS.) > > -- > Joel Rosdahl <joel@debian.org> (PGP and GPG keys available) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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