Bug#973604: lintian reports spare-manual-page on PAM and NSS modules
Package: lintian
Version: 2.100.0
Severity: normal
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Dear Lintian maintainers,
lintian seems to now warn about manual pages in section 8 with no matching
executable:
> $ lintian -iI /opt/deb/buildarea/libpam-u2f_1.1.0-1_amd64.deb
> I: libpam-u2f: spare-manual-page usr/share/man/man8/pam_u2f.8.gz
> N:
> I: spare-manual-page
> N:
> N: Each manual page in /usr/share/man should have a reason to be there.
> N: This manual page does not appear to have a valid reason to be shipped.
> N:
> N: For manual pages in sections 1 and 8, an executable (or a link to one)
> N: should exist. This check currently considers all installation packages
> N: created by the same sources, as long as they are present.
> N:
> N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 12.1 (Manual pages) and
> N: Bug#583125 for details.
> N:
> N: Severity: info
> N:
> N: Check: documentation/manual
> N:
> N: Renamed from: manpage-without-executable
This is at least incorrect in the case of NSS and PAM modules.
According to lintian.d.o, the following packages get this tag erroneously:
libnss-docker, nss-pam-ldapd, nss-wrapper
libpam-mount, libpam-net, libpam-ssh
pam, pam-geoip, pam-pkcs11, pam-ssh-agent-auth, pam-u2f, pam-wrapper
Best,
nicoo
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.35.1-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii diffstat 1.63-1
ii dpkg 1.20.5
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.5
ii file 1:5.38-5
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10
ii gpg 2.2.20-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b3
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b5
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.24-1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.24-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.5
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b2
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004002-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.004000-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.114-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b6
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-2
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b7
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.010006-1
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b1
ii liburi-perl 5.05-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1
ii lzip 1.21-8
ii lzop 1.04-1
ii man-db 2.9.3-2
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.3-4
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-25
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libtext-template-perl 1.59-1
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