Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.14
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if lintian would check whether the man page for a
program is in the right section, i.e. for stuff in /usr/bin and /bin
it should be in section 1 and for /usr/sbin and /sbin in section 8.
I had the following package and lintian didn't say anything:
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 26872 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/bin/devio
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/share/man/man8/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 856 2006-01-19 13:32:24 ./usr/share/man/man8/devio.8.gz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20051214-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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