Bug#968262: lintian: spare-manual-page misses .so targets

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Ross,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 7:17 PM Ross Vandegrift <rvandegrift@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Is that unusual or incorrect?'.

I cannot answer that. From Lintian's perspective, there is no
executable for the manual page, and that is how the tag works.

The easiest thing would be to add an override. Alternatively, you
could name the manual page after one of the utilities, but then you
probably also have to change the contents to avoid
'wrong-name-for-manual-page'. You would probably end up listing the
names of all utilities (although the one matching the manual page's
file name is the only required).

As a side note, I am not sure how helpful terminology-helpers.1 is.
Why don't you just link to the main manual page terminology.1 and add
a section about the helpers there?

Other alternatives would be to split terminology-helper.1 into
multiple files in hope that someone would get around to adding
information. You could also delete terminology-helpers.1 and add
overrides for each of the utilities, but that would be my least
favorite option.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner