Re: undocumented(7)

[cjwatson@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Sam Couter <sam@topic.com.au> wrote:
>Simple question for the day:
>
>Should a package that has a symlink to undocumented(7) also have a Depends:
>on the package that contains undocumented(7) (manpages)? It seems silly to
>me that a package could have a symlink to a non-existant man page in place
>of its own non-existant man page.

See bug #93724, where I asked for that page to be moved to an essential
package. Unfortunately the maintainer of manpages disagrees; feel free
to try to convince him if you agree with me.

(Currently, I don't think any undocumented(7)-using package depends on
manpages.)

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]