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Bug#93724: marked as done (base-files: please move undocumented(7) from manpages)

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Package: base-files
Version: 2.2.8
Severity: wishlist

As there was no objection to this on debian-devel, here's the wishlist
bug: please move undocumented(7) from the manpages package into one
marked essential, namely base-files (which I believe to be the best
choice from all the current Essential: yes packages). I imagine some
kind of versioned Replaces: of manpages would be appropriate.

/usr/{share/,}man/man7/undocumented.7.gz make up approximately 1.5Kb
between them.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson (man-db maintainer)                 [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:07:19 +0100
From: Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Cc: manpages@packages.debian.org, base-files@packages.debian.org
Subject: undocumented(7) should be in an essential package
Message-ID: <20010407220718.A30602@riva.ucam.org>
X-Mailing-List: <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/84950

There are two long-standing bugs (#32019 and #53214) against man-db
asking that undocumented(7) be moved there from manpages. I think this
is the wrong answer, and agree with the previous maintainer that the
real bug is that a lot of packages have a symbolic link to a file not in
an essential package without an explicit dependency.
/usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz is a whole 1415 bytes, and
/usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz is a symlink to it, so I don't think
it's a big deal in terms of essential package bloat.

Fabrizio suggested that /usr/{share/}man/man7/undocumented.7.gz be moved
to debianutils. Actually, I think base-files would be more appropriate,
as they're miscellaneous Debian-specific files rather than miscellaneous
Debian-specific utilities. Would anyone object to me filing a wishlist
bug against base-files requesting this? Would the manpages maintainer be
able to provide a version of that package on which base-files could have
a versioned Replaces: if I did so?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]


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