Re: Bug#39830: debian-policy: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
On 23-Jun-99, 16:56 (CDT), Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> wrote:
>
> The new proposal addresses this. It requires that the maintainer
> describe the situation wrt man pages in TODO.Debian.
This won't keep people from filing duplicate bugs, as it requires the
person to take a second step to actually look at the TODO.Debian file.
The advantage of undocumented(7) is all the info is (supposedly) in one
place: "There is no man page for this program, this is considered a bug,
the maintainer is aware of it, and a bug has been filed".
Now, if any of those clauses is not true, then that needs to be fixed.
But simply removing the link is unlikely (IMO) to make the maintainer
more responsive to the lack of a manpage. Ahhh. The actual result *will*
be the filing of multiple bug reports, which will eventually annoy the
maintainer into writing a man page. I follow your reasoning.
Good idea. :-)
Steve
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