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Bug#252161: manual page missing



On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:12:58PM +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
> hello

Hi Gürkan.
 
> you should run this on your packages:
> $ lintian -Ivi wormux_0.4.0-1_i386.deb
> N: Setting up lab in /tmp/lintian-lab.3073 ...
> N: Processing 1 packages...
> N: ----
> N: Processing binary package wormux (version 0.4.0-1) ...
> E: wormux: binary-without-manpage wormux
> N:
> N:   Each binary in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, /sbin, or /usr/games, must
> N:   have a manual page.
> N:   
> N:   Note, that though the `man' program has the capability to check for
> N:   several program names in the NAMES section, each of these programs
> N:   must have its own manual page (a symbolic link to the appropriate
> N:   manual page is sufficient) because other manual page viewers such as
> N:   xman or tkman don't support this.
> N:   
> N:   Refer to Policy Manual, section 12.1 for details.
> N:
> N: Removing /tmp/lintian-lab.3073 ...
> 
> before this software can be uploaded to debian (by finding a sponsor) 
> you should write a little manual page for it, you can use the manualpage.ex in
> debian and call it wormux.6 then create a file debian/manpages
> with debian/wormux.6 in it. then uncomment the following in debian/rules
>         dh_installman

Doh, I wonder how did it happen. I had written manual on my box, and I have
no idea why I didn't include it in this package :/

I'll do it as soon as possible.

Thanks for noticing it.

regards
fEnIo

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