Bug#968262: lintian: spare-manual-page misses .so targets
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 07:45:22PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> 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.
I see. It might be nice if the tag said "lintian cannot confirm this page is
useful, since there's no binary with the same name. If no links point to it,
it should probably be removed." But if I'm the only one to run into this this,
it's not worth the change. I'll ignore or override.
> 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?
I agree it's thin. I'd rather not combine it with terminology.1 - as a user, I
often find combined manpages difficult to navigate. But I agree more details
would be good.
> Hope this was helpful.
Very, and thanks for the feedback!
Ross
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