Re: Bug#39463,#39482,#39493: timidity, cdrdao, cdtool has no manpage for something

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:54:58 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > |     If no manual page is available for a particular program, utility or
> > > |     function and this is reported as a bug on debian-bugs, a symbolic link
> > >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > I think this is a stupid policy and should be changed.
> 
> Care to provide reasons?

If lack of a manpage is a "problem", what do we gain by making a
symlink to undocumented(7), if it still has to be kept as a "bug"?

On the other hand, if an upstream maintainer does not consider the lack of
manpage as a bug (examples: most GNU packages), does not the Debian
maintainer have the right to agree with the upstream author about it not
being a bug?

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