Re: no lintian warning on undocumented(7)
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:27:26AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> > If we need an excuse, here's a simple one: policy requires that you
> > have a bug report on file if you use undocumented(7), but lintian
> > can't check this. (Not easily, anyway.)
> Alternatively, since for lintian all we want is a heuristic, an
> approach like this might work:
I'll leave the implementation details up to Gecko. I'd rather see a
warning in all cases, since using undocumented(7) *is* a bug[1]. Also,
having a warning in all cases will make it easier for people searching
for man pages to write (as I mentioned before).
People whose pride is hurt because they're no longer lintian clean?
Tough! The package is buggy as long as it doesn't have a man page.
A few wounded prides won't kill the project. I think this is a useful
and important reminder, and we really should have it.
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