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Bug#490240: Okay, down to one lintian warning now, about manpage.



Latest files are in the usual place:

   http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/debian/onetime/

File sizes:

      3164 2008-09-14 02:55 onetime_1.73-1.diff.gz
       936 2008-09-14 02:55 onetime_1.73-1.dsc
      1684 2008-09-14 02:55 onetime_1.73-1_i386.changes
     11642 2008-09-14 02:55 onetime_1.73-1_i386.deb
   1791503 2008-09-14 02:55 onetime_1.73.orig.tar.gz

Thanks to some more help from Micah Anderson, I've got it down to one
lintian warning now:

   W: onetime: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/onetime
   N:
   N:   Each binary in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, /sbin or /usr/games should
   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:   should 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:   If the name of the man page differs from the binary by case, man may
   N:   be able to find it anyway; however, it is still best practice to make
   N:   the case of the man page match the case of the binary.
   N:   
   N:   If the man pages are provided by another package on which this package
   N:   depends, lintian may not be able to determine that man pages are
   N:   available. In this case, after confirming that all binaries do have
   N:   man pages after this package and its dependencies are installed,
   N:   please add a lintian override.
   N:   
   N:   Refer to Policy Manual, section 12.1 for details.

Not yet sure why it's not finding "onetime.1".  I'm following the
instructions here:

   http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dother.en.html#s-manpage

Watch this space for more.

-Karl



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