Bug#456657: lintian: should check for man-page availability in the Depends/Pre-Depends packages
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.36
Severity: wishlist
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lintian currently flags the absence of a man-page for a binary.
However, some packages have the man-page in the arch-indep package and
depend on it and the binary will not be installed without the man-page.
So some packages like gedit, pidgin etc. override this warning.
It would be useful if we can check if the manpage is present in any of
the Depends:-packages of the package being lintianed (just like we check
for a symlinked doc directory in case of changelog/copyright checks).
Giridhar
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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.5.0-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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