Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 aph@debian.org wrote:

> Package: timezones
> Version: 2.0.7pre1-4
> 
> No man page for tzconfig (or zic, for that matter).  
>
I agree, this should have a man page...anyone want to help with that?

> You may mark this bug as forwarded and make a link of tzconfig.8 to
> undocumented(7), following policy.
> 
This policy has created one of the most cluttered, ugly, and useless,
method of dealing with the lack of man pages.

It doesn't create any useful man pages.

I leaves my system with a river of error messages, almost every time I use
the man page system to find a man page. These messages are reporting all
the policy generated man pages that are linked to a non-existant
undocumented(7). 

Now, I not only get told at the end that no man page was found, but I also
have to put up with the stream of messages telling me of all the man pages
that have a dangling link attatched to them!

A minimal man page that says "this space temporarily left blank" would be
far preferable to the current setup.

I am not on the policy list, so please keep me on the CC list.

Waiting is,

Dwarf
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