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

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jim Lynch wrote:

> > On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> > 
> > > | 6.1. Manual pages
> > > | -----------------
> > > |
> > > |     You must install manual pages in `nroff' source form, in appropriate
> > > |     places under `/usr/man'. You should only use sections 1 to 9 (see the
> > > |     FSSTND for more details). You must _not_ install a preformatted `cat
> > > |     page'.
> > > |
> > > |     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.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Specifically, if man pages are not required, HOW do you propose that a user
> (possibly new) make any sense at all of a binary if it is not documented??

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was referring to the sentence underlined
by Roland, which means that you can't make a symlink to
undocumented(7) unless there is a bug report.

As far as I know, the symlink makes lintian to be happy.
Could anybody explain why? (Maybe it shouldn't).

Thanks.

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