Re: QUESTION: Debian Policy: Manual pages

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Harshula wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> re: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Each program, utility, and function should have an associated manual
> page included in the same package. It is suggested that all
> configuration files also have a manual page included as well. Manual
> pages for protocols and other auxiliary things are optional.
> 
> If no manual page is available, this is considered as a bug and should
> be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System (the maintainer of the
> package is allowed to write this bug report themselves, if they so
> desire). Do not close the bug report until a proper man page is
> available.[80]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Here's the example:
> 
> 1) a.tar.gz -> a.deb
> 2) b.tar.gz -> b.deb
> 3) c.tar.gz -> c.deb
> 
> c.tar.gz contains only documentation, including man pages for
> binaries/scripts in a.tar.gz and b.tar.gz.

> What is the recommended way to deal with this scenario?

If the three tarballs are released in sync, it may be possible to repack all
three as one source tarball for debian.

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  Felipe Sateler