Hi Dererk, Dererk <der...@debian.org> writes:
> Agreed to everything said.
>
> Not to excuse myself, but the reason why I originally removed this
> functionality was, mostly, because lack of testing env, and 580397
> trigger no real interest on conserve it.
Ah, I see -- so that was a fix for that conflict? The comment didn't
really allow me to guess that ;-)
BTW the correct fix for that bug would probably be to rename the macutil
man page. Especially since macutils does not ship a command called
macutil (so it seems a bit odd to have a section 1 man page called that
in the first place).
The simplest fix would seem to be to move the other package's man page
to section 7 (which seems like e.g. gnupg(7)). I'd suggest also
renaming it to be macutils at the same time, since that is actually the
package name that it's supposed to be documenting.
Alternatively, given that it includes:
BUGS
This manual page is hopelessly incomplete!
it could be simply removed, but renaming it and putting it in a
different section fixes 580397 and still allows it to be found easily
without needing to specify the section.
I guess you should get macutils to do that, and then do a versioned
depends. In the mean time you could just put your man page in section 8
for now.
> If there is someone requesting this feature, I'll gladly re-enable!
In case it was not clear, I'm requesting it. :-)
> That said, preparing the next upload...
Fair enough.
BTW would it be possible to add this to jessie-backports? (or at least
build it against jessie libraries so it's not too hard for people to
grab it from unstable).
Actually, while I doubt that fixing this would be accepted into jessie,
perhaps adding a note to the jessie version's README saying that it was
fixed later would be -- is that worth doing? I think that something in
the README would have saved me from hunting for it.
Cheers, Phil.
--
|)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd.
|-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/
|(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
pgp7hcpoZxt7K.pgp
Description: PGP signature
