See #253011 for a bug requesting the opposite (i.e. disabling the check that we had for this).
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:38:24PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It would be nice if lintian would check whether the man page for a > program is in the right section, i.e. for stuff in /usr/bin and /bin > it should be in section 1 and for /usr/sbin and /sbin in section 8. > I had the following package and lintian didn't say anything: > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:34 ./ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/bin/ > -rwxr-xr-x root/root 26872 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/bin/devio > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/share/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/share/man/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-01-19 13:32:33 ./usr/share/man/man8/ > -rw-r--r-- root/root 856 2006-01-19 13:32:24 > ./usr/share/man/man8/devio.8.gz > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Versions of packages lintian depends on: > ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20051214-1 The GNU assembler, linker and > bina > ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes > introduc > ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian > ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using > "magic" > ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization > utilities > ii intltool-debian 0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant > conf > ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and > output > ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager > ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical > Extraction > > lintian recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
