On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 12:00:09AM +0200, Robert Luberda wrote: > The undocumented(7) man page was removed 3 years ago: > > manpages (4.04-2) unstable; urgency=medium > > ... strip other changelog entries ... > > * Remove obsolete manpage undocumented.7. > This manpage was provided in order to comply with an ancient > policy version. The manpage is no longer needed since Nov 2002. > Closes: #506653, LP:#426359 > > -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <to...@debian.org> Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:02:08 +0100 > > > but man-db stil refers to it: > > robert@vox:/tmp$ /usr/bin/man -L C 8 test > No manual entry for test in section 8 > See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
This was in some ways an unfortunate misunderstanding on the part of the manpages maintainer. The intent of the policy change in question was to drop the farm of symlinks to undocumented(7), not to drop the page entirely; I added the customised error message in man-db as part of the discussion around that policy change. Still, it's done, and it doesn't feel important enough to relitigate, so I'll remove the customised error message for my next upload. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
