Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented
In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980614150204.5869G-100000@dwarf.polaris.net> you wrot
>> 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.
Nor was that the point of the policy.
>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).
That's because you must not have the manpages package installed, which
I find difficult to believe.
<apharris@burrito:_debian> locate undocumented
/usr/bin/dh_undocumented
/usr/man/man1/dh_undocumented.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/ilu-undocumented.1.gz
/usr/man/man2/undocumented.2.gz
/usr/man/man3/undocumented.3.gz
/usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz
<apharris@burrito:_debian> dpkg -S /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz
manpages: /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz
>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.
I see no valid arguments against policy here. Policy says ever
application in the standard paths should have a manpage, even if that
manpage says "no manpage". The fact that we have broken links has
nothing to do with policy per se.
I do see a valid complaint that the /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz file
doesn't seem to be a *required* file, which can lead to lots of broken
links as you seem to be seeing.
Dale, can you confirm you do *not* have the manpages package installed?
I'll raise the issue as a bug against 'base-files' once I'm sure what
the problem you're experiencing is.
But that's an issue separate from this bug report, which should stay
open or be marked as forwarded.
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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