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Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?



On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:14:17 +0900, Charles Plessy
<charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> said:  

> Le Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:05:45PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
>> 
>> This would violate the Debian Policy section 12.1, reading "[..]
>> Each program, utility, and function should have an associated
>> manual page included in the same package. [..]".

> Hi Daniel,

> Since it is not a MUST, but just a SHOULD, would it mean that it
> would be acceptable to ship the manpages with the doc anyway ? 

        Violations of SHOULD rules are still bugs (unless you can
 demonstrate it is policy that is buggy), even  if they are not RC
 bugs.

        manoj
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