Re: policy summary
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> I think the problem is really that lintian is too picky about lack
> of man pages. At least, it's impossible to get a package by lintian
> without setting undocumented links for every binary without a man
> page, which is a sure way to get maintainers to do so.
Moreover, using undocumented(7) *IS* a bug, so lintian should report
it as a bug! IOW, using undocumented(7) should NOT shut lintian up!
> Put another way, undocumented is superfluous now because we do in fact know
> about every missing man page because lintian tells us.
Yes, good point.
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