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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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