Re: Bug#13839: gawk manpage symlink is completely useless. (fwd)
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What does "each binary should have a manpage" exactly means?
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:15:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>
To: Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>
Cc: 13839@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#13839: gawk manpage symlink is completely useless.
'Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:'
>
>On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
>
>> $ ls /usr/bin/gawk*
>> /usr/bin/gawk /usr/bin/gawk-3.0.2
>>
>> There should be a man page for each binary.
>
>There is only *one* binary:
>
>$ ls -li gawk*
>
> 54187 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 150160 mar 7 1997 gawk
> 54187 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 150160 mar 7 1997 gawk-3.0.2
>
>This manpage is not needed at all, unless you want to read "there should
>be a man page for each binary" as "there should be a man page for each
>item in /usr/bin".
Someone submits automated bug reports if a file in /usr/bin doesn't
have a man page. So unless policy clarifies this, I'll keep the
symbolic links in /usr/man. Feel free to discuss this on
debian-policy and let me know the result.
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