Re: Bug#39463,#39482,#39493: timidity, cdrdao, cdtool has no manpage for something
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> > what do we gain by making a symlink to undocumented(7),
>
> The symlink is there for information to the user, that he doesn't need
> to provide a bug report, because this bug is already known (that's the
> intension of undocumented(7), as you can read in this man page as well
> as in the policy.
The symlink causes a stupid manpage to show up saying that there is no
manpage. I would prefer if man would simply say there is no manpage.
The fact that there is already a bug filed is evident from the BTS. Why
put a symlink to undocumented into the package?
Sometimes I check for documentation by doing a dpkg -L. I see a manpage
for a certain command and do a "man xxx". Result is a "undocumented"
manpage. Very irritating. It would have saved some effort if there simply
were no manpage.
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