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Re: manpage: Section 1L



On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:07:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

I agree. The nas man pages all appear in sections 1nas, 3nas and
4nas. There are lots of them, and I've just been ignoring the lintian
warnings for a while.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray

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