Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:
> >>"Bill" == Bill Mitchell <debian@pny-fmail.webquest.com> writes:
> Bill> That's pretty messy, however. Perhaps, since other packages
> Bill> may presume the presence of the undocumented(7) man page
> Bill> without declaring a dependency on the manpages package, the
> Bill> undocumented(7) manpage should be provided by some package
> Bill> having a priority of Required instead of by the manpages
> Bill> 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 (well, almost) always, Manoj, you are the voice of reason. I
agree.
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