Re: undocumented(7) should be in an essential package

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> wrote:
>Why can't we just do away with this silly "undocumented" manpage? It never
>did what it was supposed to do - tell people that the maintainer knows
>about the problem and a bts entry exists.
>
>In fact it seems to be common that a maintainer just installs the link
>to undocumented and a real manpage is never written. Also I find it
>quite disturbing when using dpkg -L to find the docs of a package - ah, 
>there is a manpage for foo. man foo -> undocumented. Funny!

Well, yeah - while we've got it it should be handled properly though ...

http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html, in case tbm hasn't advertised it
enough.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]