The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 225450cffdf3d4ec653cd8a79d5ae446eddde0c6
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Mar 27 16:18:07 2013 +0100
man: Remove BUGS sections containing obvious or misplaced information
The BUGS section in u-a(8) just contains obvious instructions. The one
in deb-substvars(5) comes from dpkg-source(1), and got wrongly carried
over during the big dpkg-source(1) man page split.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2868257..7a5bc36 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ dpkg (1.17.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- Remove unneeded double quotes in .SH headings.
- Do not use “header” when “format” or “field” is meant.
- Move dangers of installing via dpkg-deb from BUGS to a NOTES section.
+ - Remove BUGS sections containing obvious or misplaced information.
* Use colon instead of dot for user:group in dpkg debug output.
* Remove support for obsolete DM-Upload-Allowed from Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
* Fix update-alternatives to use the current alternative link as the first
diff --git a/man/deb-substvars.5 b/man/deb-substvars.5
index f105d2c..cbb8c38 100644
--- a/man/deb-substvars.5
+++ b/man/deb-substvars.5
@@ -165,10 +165,6 @@ and an empty value is assumed.
.B debian/substvars
List of substitution variables and values.
.
-.SH BUGS
-The point at which field overriding occurs compared to certain
-standard output field settings is rather confused.
-
.SH SEE ALSO
.ad l
.nh
diff --git a/man/update-alternatives.8 b/man/update-alternatives.8
index 091322e..173c375 100644
--- a/man/update-alternatives.8
+++ b/man/update-alternatives.8
@@ -510,14 +510,6 @@ this as root:
.B update\-alternatives \-\-auto vi
.RE
.
-.SH BUGS
-If you find a bug, please report it using the Debian bug-tracking system.
-.PP
-If you find any discrepancy between the operation of
-.B update\-alternatives
-and this manual page, it is a bug,
-either in the implementation or the documentation; please report it.
-.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ln (1),
FHS, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
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