Adrian Bunk:
> Source: debhelper
> Version: 13.1
> Severity: serious
> Control: affects -1 src:esys-particle
> Control: block 961995 by -1
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=esys-particle
> 
> ...
>    dh_installman -a
> dh_installman: warning: Section for ./debian/esysparticle.1 is computed as 
> "2012-12-30", which is not a valid section
> dh_installman: error: Could not determine section for ./debian/esysparticle.1
> dh_installman: error: Aborting due to earlier error
> make: *** [debian/rules:15: binary-arch] Error 25
> 
> 
> debhelper (13.1) unstable; urgency=low
> ...
>   * dh_installman: Improve error messages and handling of broken
>     section numbers.  Notably ignore (with a warning) sections from
>     manpages that look suspiciously like a version number.  Thanks
>     to Paul Gevers for reporting the bug.  (Closes: #958343)
> ...
> 

Hi Adrian,

I do not understand how you came to the conclusion that because
esys-particle has a completely broken manpage then debhelper should have
an RC bug.

Prior to that error, dh_installman silently installed it in
/usr/share/man/man2, which would clearly have been wrong:

"""
$ apt-file show esys-particle | grep share/man/
esys-particle: /usr/share/man/man2/esysparticle.2012-12-30.gz
"""

Based on this, can we agree that this and future instances you find of
this case should in general be filed against packages containing the
manpage rather then debhelper?

~Niels

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