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Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented



Hi,
>>"Bill" == Bill Mitchell <debian@pny-fmail.webquest.com> writes:

 Bill> That's pretty messy, however.  Perhaps, since other packages may
 Bill> presume the presence of the undocumented(7) man page without declaring
 Bill> a dependency on the manpages package, the undocumented(7) manpage should
 Bill> be provided by some package having a priority of Required instead of by
 Bill> the manpages package with a priority of Important.

	Umm. I think I disagree. If you do not have packages labeled
 important, you may well be missing ``important'' functionality on
 your machine. Having something say "no such manpage" is a quite
 reasonable response. 

	Not every bit of functionality should be shoehorned into
 "required" packages, since then the distinctions loose their
 meaning. The system does not get totally broken without the missing
 manpage.

	As the policy manual says, the `important' packages are just a
 bare minimum of commonly-expected and necessary tools. These are
 packages without which the system will not run well or be useable
 (also from the policy manual).

	manoj
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