Bug#80819: marked as done (manpages: multiple errors)
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From: Lazarus Long <lazarus@overdue.dhis.net>
Subject: manpages: multiple errors
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Package: manpages
Version: 1.34-2
Severity: normal
$ man identd
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/suidperl-5.6.1p.gz is a dangling symlink
man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/suidperl-5.6.1p: No such file or directory
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/suidperl-5.6.1p.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/suidperl.1p.gz is a dangling symlink
man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/suidperl.1p: No such file or directory
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/suidperl.1p.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz is a dangling symlink
man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1: No such file or directory
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::Filter.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::Filter(3pm) failed
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::HeadParser.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::HeadParser(3pm) failed
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::LinkExtor.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::LinkExtor(3pm) failed
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::TokeParser.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::TokeParser(3pm) failed
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::Parser.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::Parser(3pm) failed
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::Entities.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::Entities(3pm) failed
man: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1.gz is a dangling symlink
man: can't open /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1: No such file or directory
man: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
No manual entry for identd
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux phoenix 2.2.18 #1 Sat Dec 23 14:59:36 UTC 2000 i586 unknown
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From: Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>
To: 79656-done@bugs.debian.org, 80819-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Man page bugs
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* #79656: Man pages invalid, incorrect or missing
Package: general; Reported by: Benoit Sibaud
<benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.fr>; 81 days old.
* #80819: manpages: multiple errors
Package: general; Reported by: Lazarus Long
<lazarus@overdue.dhis.net>; 67 days old.
There's no real point in reporting bugs like these against general, any
more than there's a point in reporting a bug against general saying
"lots of packages are buggy". All that happens is that the bug sits open
and nothing gets done to the individual buggy packages. It's really a
collection of specific problems rather than a general problem, so I'm
closing these bugs.
What you should do instead is report bugs against each package with a
problem, and/or, if there are enough buggy packages, make lintian have a
check capable of detecting this. Note that lintian already has wishlist
bug reports open asking for this feature.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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