Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > 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).
<snip>
On my (bo) system, the undocumented(7) man page was provided by the
manpages package. This suggests that packages providing links to the
undocumented(7) man page ought perhaps to declare a dependency on the
manpages package which provides the target file for the link.
That's pretty messy, however. Perhaps, since other packages may
presume the presence of the undocumented(7) man page without declaring
a dependency on the manpages package, the undocumented(7) manpage should
be provided by some package having a priority of Required instead of by
the manpages package with a priority of Important.
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