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Bug#543781: lintian: diversion-for-unknown-file and manual page sections



Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: normal

When diverting away an executable and its manpage and replacing them
with a different executable and manpage, lintian shouldn't report
diversion-for-unknown-file merely because the manual page sections differ.

An example is libmodule-corelist-perl, see #474529 and

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2009/08/msg00084.html

Quoting Colin Watson in #474529:

> It's almost always wrong to handle manual pages differently from
> binaries in maintainer scripts - if you divert foo to foo.real, you
> should also divert foo.1.gz to foo.real.1.gz. (Similarly for
> alternatives.)
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org



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