Re: Lintian: warn

[Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>]

Hey,

thanks for working on the reopen packaging.

Lintian is a tool which detects when your package is violating Debian policy (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lintian).

In this case, you are including a binary program in your package, but not a corresponding man page. The fix is to author a man page and include it in the package.

In the future, you can use lintian -i on your .changes file to get full explanations for the detected errors. Personally, I’m using this ~/.lintianrc: https://github.com/stapelberg/configfiles/blob/master/lintianrc

On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 11:44 PM Aman Verma <amanv1999@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey,
    I was packaging "reopen"  (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-workhorse/tree/master/vendor/github.com/client9/reopen)  which is a dependency of gitlab-workhorse . Building the package with 'dpkg-buildpackage' worked greatly . 'Lintian' was also clean . But on running 'sbuild' it popped me something i.e 'Lintian: warn'.

The logs of 'sbuild' are here  https://paste.debian.net/1057712/  

To be specific,it has some errors on line 1216-1217 i.e

W: reopen: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/example1
W: reopen: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/example2

Kindly, help me out to resolve this issue.

Thanking You,
Aman Verma
(nightwarrior-xxx)

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Best regards,
Michael