Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.36 > Severity: wishlist > > lintian currently flags the absence of a man-page for a binary. > However, some packages have the man-page in the arch-indep package and > depend on it and the binary will not be installed without the man-page. > So some packages like gedit, pidgin etc. override this warning. > > It would be useful if we can check if the manpage is present in any of > the Depends:-packages of the package being lintianed (just like we check > for a symlinked doc directory in case of changelog/copyright checks).
That's an interesting idea. I had been assuming that we couldn't do this check because it's cross-package, but I hadn't looked at the copyright check. It does work around that with an interesting hack that's a little questionable but which should work in the most common cases. I'll have to think about that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
