Hello Jeremy, It's very annoying when you install something and try to 'man foo' and you don't get documentation. I don't think that situation has got any less annoying over the past twenty years. It makes the system we are producing less useful. I don't think the fact that we have many open Lintian warnings about this indicates a consensus that these manpages don't matter. It just indicates that there is always more work to be done than people able to do it. Packages being "Lintian clean" should not itself be a goal. I think we should be doing a better job of letting new contributors know that Lintian only make suggestions, and they can use their own judgements about how to spend their time. I think possibly we could weaken the requirement for GUI programs. It's still annoying when they do have options and you want to know what they are (or, you want to know that there aren't any options, so you can't solve your problem that way) but it's less bad than for CLI programs. So maybe we could weaken the language down from 'should' for GUI programs. -- Sean Whitton
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