Bug#271014: marked as done (binary-without-manpage uses "must" instead of "should")
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Policy says providing a manpage is a "should" requirement not a "must" one,
but lintian's wording in the binary-without-manpage warning uses "must".
Since Policy makes a clear distinction between what "should" and "must" mean,
making lintian inconsistent with that leads to confusion. Please fix that
(I'm attaching a patch).
Quoting Policy 12.1:
"Each program, utility, and function should have an associated manual page
included in the same package."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i386)
Kernel: GNU/kFreeBSD 5.2.1-6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8+kbsd.1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.34-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 4.10-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.1-5 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii man-db 2.4.2-17+cfg The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.4-1+kbsd Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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--- lintian-1.23.2/checks/manpages.desc.old 2004-09-10 17:30:42.000000000 +0200
+++ lintian-1.23.2/checks/manpages.desc 2004-09-10 17:31:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
Tag: binary-without-manpage
Type: error
Info: Each binary in <tt>/usr/bin</tt>, <tt>/usr/sbin</tt>, <tt>/bin</tt>,
- <tt>/sbin</tt>, or <tt>/usr/games</tt>, must have a manual page.
+ <tt>/sbin</tt>, or <tt>/usr/games</tt>, should have a manual page.
.
Note, that though the `man' program has the capability to check for
several program names in the NAMES section, each of these programs
- must have its own manual page (a symbolic link to the appropriate
+ should have its own manual page (a symbolic link to the appropriate
manual page is sufficient) because other manual page viewers such as
xman or tkman don't support this.
Ref: policy 12.1
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From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
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Subject: Bug#271014: fixed in lintian 1.23.3
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 1.23.3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_1.23.3.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.3.dsc
lintian_1.23.3.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.3.tar.gz
lintian_1.23.3_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.3_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 271014@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> (supplier of updated lintian package)
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 02:45:36 +0200
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.23.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 87805 249414 251262 258604 261435 261602 261603 262649 264218 268077 271014 274286 274832 275124
Changes:
lintian (1.23.3) unstable; urgency=low
.
The ``the others must be busy releasing Sarge or something'' release,
prepared by yours truly
.
* checks/conffiles.desc:
+ Note the most likely cause for duplicate-conffile in the description
(thanks Chris Anderson for running into this problem and asking me
about it)
* checks/copyright-file:
+ Revert the extra pedantic check introduced in 1.23.0 that
complained about unstrict dependencies when one as a
/usr/share/doc/<package> that is a symlink (Closes: #249414)
* checks/debconf:
+ Don't warn when the Choices field of a debconf question is
not translated, often it makes no sense to translate it
(Closes: #262649)
* checks/debhelper:
+ dh-make also creates sample files named .EX, so make that check
case-insensitive (Closes: #251262)
* checks/fields.desc:
+ Adjust package-has-a-duplicate-relation to warning, and note that
this sometimes happens to you when using ${shlibs:Depends}, and you
shouldn't bother too much if that's the case (Closes: #274286)
Thanks Peter Eisentraut for the suggestion
+ Fix English language depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version,
thanks to Peter Eisentrautf for noticing (Closes: #261603)
+ [FL] Clone depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version as
build-depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version to give
correct policy reference (Closes: #261602)
* checks/init.d:
+ Don't warn for missing init.d scripts in package and conffile list
if a variable is used instead of a real name (Closes: #264218)
* checks/manpages.desc:
+ Demote binary-without-manpage to warning, and adjust description,
to be consistent with policy, which says a manpage should be available
(and doesn't use "must" for it). Thanks to Robert Millan for his patch
(Closes: #271014)
* checks/nmu.desc:
+ Note in source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number's description that
the mistake could also be the other way around (Closes: #258604)
* checks/po-debconf:
+ Don't give missing-file-from-potfile-in on empty lines
(Thanks Adam Conrad for noticing)
* checks/scripts:
+ The php commandline interpreter is now provided by php4-cli, and
not php4-cgi, update dependency check accordingly (Closes: #268077)
+ Give an error if the 'config' script uses a non-essential
interpreter (Closes: #274832)
* checks/shared-libraries:
+ Ignore comments in shlibs files (Closes: #275124)
.
* doc/lintian.sgml:
+ Document that you can use comments in overrides (Closes: #87805)
.
* frontend/lintian:
+ Fix overrides so that they allow all of (1) <package> <type>:,
(2) <package>:, and (3) <nothing> as prefix to tags you want to
override, and modify documentation accordingly. This used to be buggy
(Closes: #261435)
Files:
f5a7cc57412304d4e5211f5ff9b31d13 738 devel optional lintian_1.23.3.dsc
d8fd779f055158c0274972c7959631ea 250994 devel optional lintian_1.23.3.tar.gz
7fb2bee4dc712bfe4aca047c4b0fc114 217992 devel optional lintian_1.23.3_all.deb
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