Bug#484028: lintian: [binary-without-manpage] should perform case-insensitive check
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.49
> Severity: minor
>
> Suppose I have package 'fbreader' with manpage named 'FBReader'. I
> install file '/usr/bin/fbreader'. Command 'man fbreader' show me the
> correct manpage. So lintian should not warning me that binary doesn't
> have a corresponding manpage, should it?
Why not install the man page with the same capitalization as the command?
Yes, man can do a case-insensitive search, but it opens up the possibility
of finding some other better case match in another section before finding
the case match that you want, and I'm not sure I understand why you would
ever want the capitalization of the man page and the command to not match.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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