Re: lintian: bad-link-to-undocumented-manpage

[Tom Lear <tom@trap.mtview.ca.us>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote:

> 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.

This is a bug in the package, but it's also a documentation bug in
lintian... The explanation for this error should be updated to reflect the
FHS.
							- Tom