Re: Lintian errors and warnings

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
>Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org> wrote:
>>     The gzip package has a similar situation with gunzip and zcat,
>>but it has created gunzip.1 and zcat.1 as hardlinks to gzip.1.  Since
>>man can deal with a manpage with multiple names, this seems like an
>>unnecessary complication.
>
>Please install dictunzip.1 and dictzcat.1 as symlinks or hardlinks.

Actually, ignore the "... or hardlinks" bit. Policy 13.1:

   You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor
   put absolute filenames in .so directives.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]