Package: gcc-4.1 Version: 4.1.1-11 Followup-For: Bug #383713
man gcc delivers the following result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man gcc man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz is a dangling symlink No manual entry for gcc See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. I understand that the documentation has been removed because it is non-free, however, this error message suggests that man has been misconfigured in some fashion, and is troubling and misleading. Please consider providing man page stubs which explain that the documentation is intentionally missing, perhaps with a link to a page documentating the long backtstory that led to this decision, perhaps reducing the need to re-explain the problem to new encounterers of the problem. Ideally, I would like to see a package in non-free which contains this documentation, because although I understand the decision, and agree with the principle, I need documentation for my development tools in practice. I am 100% behind Debian for making the principled choice of removing non-free documentation, but perhaps two-facedly also want to get on with my life using Linux. A hoop-jumping exercise to locate and install non-free documentation seems fully appropriate. The non-availability of such documentation seems not so much. I hope the current situation is temporary. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages gcc-4.1 depends on: ii binutils 2.17-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpp-4.1 4.1.1-11 The GNU C preprocessor ii gcc-4.1-base 4.1.1-11 The GNU Compiler Collection (base ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-11 GCC support library ii libssp0 4.1.1-11 GCC stack smashing protection libr Versions of packages gcc-4.1 recommends: ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Development Librari pn libmudflap0-dev <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]