Bug#456657: lintian: should check for man-page availability in the Depends/Pre-Depends packages
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <giridhar@appaji.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.36
> Severity: wishlist
>
> 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).
That's an interesting idea. I had been assuming that we couldn't do this
check because it's cross-package, but I hadn't looked at the copyright
check. It does work around that with an interesting hack that's a little
questionable but which should work in the most common cases.
I'll have to think about that.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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