Bug#661808: lintian: non-obvious references to debconf specification
On 2012-03-01 14:06, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.5
> Severity: minor
>
> $ lintian-info -t unknown-field-in-templates | grep -A 1 Refer
> N: Refer to Configuration management (Templates) and the debconf-devel(7)
> N: manual page for details.
>
> If there is no hyperlink, it's not immediately obvious that
> "Configuration management" is title of the document better known as the
> debconf specification.
>
> I noticed that because I wanted to add copyright-format to our list of
> manuals. It would share the same problem and the produced output would
> be even less helpful:
>
> N: Refer to Machine-readable debian/copyright file for details.
>
> Is this something we should fix or lintian (by adding some extra code to
> private/refresh-manual-refs)? Or should it be fixed on the debian-policy
> side?
>
Russ, do you have a preference here?
~Niels
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