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Dear Lintian maintainers, lintian seems to now warn about manual pages in section 8 with no matching executable: > $ lintian -iI /opt/deb/buildarea/libpam-u2f_1.1.0-1_amd64.deb > I: libpam-u2f: spare-manual-page usr/share/man/man8/pam_u2f.8.gz > N: > I: spare-manual-page > N: > N: Each manual page in /usr/share/man should have a reason to be there. > N: This manual page does not appear to have a valid reason to be shipped. > N: > N: For manual pages in sections 1 and 8, an executable (or a link to one) > N: should exist. This check currently considers all installation packages > N: created by the same sources, as long as they are present. > N: > N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 12.1 (Manual pages) and > N: Bug#583125 for details. > N: > N: Severity: info > N: > N: Check: documentation/manual > N: > N: Renamed from: manpage-without-executable This is at least incorrect in the case of NSS and PAM modules. According to lintian.d.o, the following packages get this tag erroneously: libnss-docker, nss-pam-ldapd, nss-wrapper libpam-mount, libpam-net, libpam-ssh pam, pam-geoip, pam-pkcs11, pam-ssh-agent-auth, pam-u2f, pam-wrapper Best, nicoo - -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.35.1-2 ii bzip2 1.0.8-4 ii diffstat 1.63-1 ii dpkg 1.20.5 ii dpkg-dev 1.20.5 ii file 1:5.38-5 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10 ii gpg 2.2.20-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b3 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b5 ii libclone-perl 0.45-1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.24-1 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.24-1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.5 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b2 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004002-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.004000-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.114-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b6 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-2 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b7 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.010006-1 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b1 ii liburi-perl 5.05-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1 ii lzip 1.21-8 ii lzop 1.04-1 ii man-db 2.9.3-2 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.3-4 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-25 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libtext-template-perl 1.59-1 - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJFBAEBCgAvFiEEU7EqA8ZVHYoLJhPE5vmO4pLV7MsFAl+f/RIRHG5pY29vQGRl Ymlhbi5vcmcACgkQ5vmO4pLV7Mt3MhAAg1K0lQ1vzaUgUKleB/4KH5MSLdOKgA8g cr+5R9/kJLgiQq8wCQtjJ/V8eAxyhIt3YAmIttg8eqH4yTvFi0ef1gw0lOYwP1FX pbO/kW6B6vv9j/NqCldu7l4yybJM5XfMlLxcbohlG7bZWdjdhsS5S0OyKU6H4zx+ jOwy1D7enryLAsjnrDnJMvAHizHEH3KbqZz2b4dCysWqlEc8FAbcpq3Vkcpbc6Qy VxgvXyIsYjQPvQfJId4UduCQcEUmWrkuOGViMgvQOa1prku2j5APcoZRYcwNyje1 J/+BK8paZPBri5ss4MiPrS9vmjYCpXTGb7ooZwy4W5DVAqntT0F04I9NdHQ3qhD7 3OrwKIOiJfZ+OtLddkxPMqWP0RvlvwUACtdaXL96Zbep/5ZDkbGlilJTc8DN09QQ RfUrx6kkd2heXcpz7qJpPU43xgDE6CF68ag74eHj9mjMGX3xm0GKqca+e9GINb4G iINDgin+p7zbwPPPL0wT8s8lsenRRUIJgToj52LLjbQyRY6lgpsZOKycZtNOtVJb huhnuhGs5HqmPQShF7C5hmgA5YfDyhvIhX/z58sB6KpJJMkHCVaM6jrRYPT3RW5g v3MoOaEAJeRh3AVLgVenGTemdSteNqMrHtn+P3dYUx8iVmNEUnrxIrtm8hO7maoU q4E6PePc298= =l/La -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----