On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:15:37AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > In this case it's partly a Lintian bug. The link-to-undocumented-manpage > warning should be removed altogether, as policy has been amended to no > longer recommend the use of undocumented(7).
Erm... isn't this exactly the reason to warn even more about having undocumented(7) symlinks? :) > > Overriding link-to-undocumented-manpage was acceptable: > > > > W: tux-aqfh: link-to-undocumented-manpage usr/share/man/man6/tux_aqfh.6.gz > > N: > > N: Symbolic links to the undocumented(7) manual page may be provided > > only > > N: when a bug has been filed that no manual page is available. If you > > N: like, you may report the bug yourself, and add an override for this > > N: warning in your package. > > N: > > Bleh, I disagree with that text. :-) Shaleh was generally consistent in > saying that overrides should only be used for cases where an exception > needs to be made to an otherwise correct general rule, and not to hide > Lintian bugs or package bugs. I don't know what Joy thinks, but this has > certainly been the guideline in the past. > > (I wonder if that text was my fault ... if so, oops.) I'm not sure where that description was going... I'll rephrase it to simply say that even if there's a undocumented(7) symlink, there's still no manual page and one should be written. Which reminds me, gotta fix the upgrading checklist, it says that not having manual pages has become a bug -- it's been a bug all along. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.