Re: lintian + man page question
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:56:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement? is there some way
> of linking to the "undocumented" man page?
Yes, but if you read undocumented(7) it says "this is here because it's
a bug, there should be something in the BTS.". Violating the spirit of
the policy is still viloating the policy :-) .
> 2. is it ok to include my placeholder manpage with the deb package? it
> really doesn't give any useful information at all. just gives the app
> name, installed files and the author.
It would be better to write a more complete manual page or at least
include basic information such as what the program does and a reference
pointing at the actual documentation. If the man page is too useless
and people look at it you're likely to get bugs complaining about its
inadequacy.
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