Bug#978552: 978552: conventions for writing Linux man pages

2021-02-05 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Felix, On 2021-02-06 00:13, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Andrius, > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:57 AM Andrius Merkys wrote: >> Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates to these timestamps >> are handled automatically > I like your idea, but how can the dates—being handled >

Bug#978552: 978552: conventions for writing Linux man pages

2021-02-05 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Andrius, On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:57 AM Andrius Merkys wrote: > > Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates to these timestamps > are handled automatically I like your idea, but how can the dates—being handled automatically—ever be wrong? Do the scripts neglect to adjust manual

Processed: Bug#981932 marked as pending in lintian

2021-02-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 pending Bug #981932 [lintian] lintian: warn about packages using PyPI pages in the Homepage field Added tag(s) pending. -- 981932: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981932 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with

Processed: Bug#981935 marked as pending in lintian

2021-02-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 pending Bug #981935 [lintian] lintian: warn about packages using Rubygems pages in the Homepage field Added tag(s) pending. -- 981935: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981935 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with

Bug#978552: 978552: conventions for writing Linux man pages

2021-02-05 Thread Andrius Merkys
As explained in [1], there actually are conventions for writing man pages given in 'man 7 man-pages'. Thus .TH line can be trusted to contain the date of last non-trivial change: date: The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the man page. (Within the man-pages project, the

Bug#981935: lintian: warn about packages using Rubygems pages in the Homepage field

2021-02-05 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: wishlist Please warn about packages using Rubygems pages in the Homepage field. Rubygems is a packaging system just as Debian is a packaging system and each Rubygems package has a Homepage link that points at the upstream homepage. Debian packages

Bug#981932: lintian: warn about packages using PyPI pages in the Homepage field

2021-02-05 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: wishlist Please warn about packages using PyPI pages in the Homepage field. PyPI is a packaging system just as Debian is a packaging system and each PyPI package has a Homepage link that points at the upstream homepage. Debian packages should point at