lintian: r1209 - in trunk: checks debian

[rra@debian.org]

Author: rra
Date: 2008-02-14 19:11:43 +0100 (Thu, 14 Feb 2008)
New Revision: 1209

Modified:
   trunk/checks/manpages.desc
   trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
* checks/manpages.desc:
  + [RA] Mention in binary-without-manpage that if the man pages are
    provided by another package on which this package depends, a lintian
    override is appropriate.

Modified: trunk/checks/manpages.desc
===================================================================
--- trunk/checks/manpages.desc	2008-02-10 23:37:05 UTC (rev 1208)
+++ trunk/checks/manpages.desc	2008-02-14 18:11:43 UTC (rev 1209)
@@ -35,11 +35,17 @@
 Info: Each binary in <tt>/usr/bin</tt>, <tt>/usr/sbin</tt>, <tt>/bin</tt>,
  <tt>/sbin</tt> or <tt>/usr/games</tt> should have a manual page
  .
- Note, that though the `man' program has the capability to check for
+ Note that though the man program has the capability to check for
  several program names in the NAMES section, each of these programs
  should have its own manual page (a symbolic link to the appropriate
  manual page is sufficient) because other manual page viewers such as
  xman or tkman don't support this.
+ .
+ If the man pages are provided by another package on which this package
+ depends, lintian may not be able to determine that man pages are
+ available.  In this case, after confirming that all binaries do have
+ man pages after this package and its dependencies are installed, please
+ add a lintian override.
 Ref: policy 12.1
 
 Tag: manpage-in-wrong-directory

Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2008-02-10 23:37:05 UTC (rev 1208)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2008-02-14 18:11:43 UTC (rev 1209)
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
   * checks/md5sums{.desc,}:
     + [FL] Remove tag md5sums-control-file-is-empty in favour of
       a more general tag in control-files.
+  * checks/manpages.desc:
+    + [RA] Mention in binary-without-manpage that if the man pages are
+      provided by another package on which this package depends, a lintian
+      override is appropriate.
   * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
     + [FL] Warn if a maintainer script is a valid shell script but
       doesn't seem to have any actual code.  Based on an idea