Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.5
Severity: minor

$ lintian-info -t unknown-field-in-templates | grep -A 1 Refer
N:   Refer to Configuration management (Templates) and the debconf-devel(7)
N:   manual page for details.

If there is no hyperlink, it's not immediately obvious that "Configuration management" is title of the document better known as the debconf specification.

I noticed that because I wanted to add copyright-format to our list of manuals. It would share the same problem and the produced output would be even less helpful:

N:   Refer to Machine-readable debian/copyright file for details.

Is this something we should fix or lintian (by adding some extra code to private/refresh-manual-refs)? Or should it be fixed on the debian-policy side?

--
Jakub Wilk



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