Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section
See #253011 for a bug requesting the opposite (i.e. disabling the
check that we had for this).
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:38:24PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
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>
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