Re: policy summary
Chris Waters writes:
> 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!
OTOH, new packages with lintian errors tend to get rejected - it would
be unfair to reject new software simply because it contains no man pages...
Matthew
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