Re: manpage: Section 1L
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> teTeX comes with some manpages of section "1L" according to the header
> entry in the file, and lintian complains about
>
> W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 != 1L
>
> It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section,
> however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or
> Linux-)specific, so that we should change it during packaging, or
> whether I should ask upstream to change it. Dr. Google wasn't helpful,
> unfortunately.
I think lintian is way too pedantic here. It doesn't actually make any
particular difference to anything; the only thing I know of that
programmatically cares about the section in .TH is dh_installman, and if
that were a problem for you you'd already know about it.
However, man page sections do vary between Unixes, so it seems
reasonable to change this in the packaging.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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