Felix Lechner pushed to branch master at lintian / lintian
Commits: 598c3763 by Felix Lechner at 2019-12-08T19:19:29Z Add a new tag gratuitous-manpage to indicate a manpage without an executable. The severity minor is the lowest setting to trigger a warning. That way, most people (including the reporter for Bug#583125) are still alerted to extra manpages. Added in response to Bug#583125. Gbp-Dch: ignore - - - - - 20834ac5 by Felix Lechner at 2019-12-08T19:20:05Z Issue new tag gratuitous-manpage when a manpage is not accompanied by an executable. (Closes: #583125) For now, the tag is issued only for sections 1 (general commands) and 8 (system administration). The other sections look more complicated. Perhaps section 6 (games) could be added here. All existing tests for manpages were adjusted except for one. The test manpages-dependencies ships a manpage in a package called pecho-data. In that case, the tag was added as expected. It is unclear how common it is to ship manpages in a separate -data package. Policy 12.1 clearly discourages it. I struggled with that question, and then decided to implement the tag. I was further unsure about the proper severity. The current setting, minor, is the lowest setting to trigger a warning. That way, most people (including the reporter for Bug#583125) are still alerted to extra manpages. - - - - - cc1fc075 by Felix Lechner at 2019-12-08T19:20:05Z Provide test case with manpages that do not come with executables. In response to Bug#583125. Gbp-Dch: ignore - - - - - d08dccfe by Felix Lechner at 2019-12-08T19:20:05Z Fix existing test cases; many did not install executables and triggered new tag gratuitous-manpage. All tests now install executables, except for manpages-dependencies. In that test, the new tag was added as expected because the manpage ships in a separate -data package. According to policy 12.1, such splitting of manpage and executable is discouraged. These changes were made in response to Bug#583125. Gbp-Dch: ignore - - - - - 30 changed files: - checks/manpages.pm - + t/tags/checks/manpages/bad-link-to-undocumented-manpage/build-spec/debian/install - t/tags/checks/manpages/manpages-general/build-spec/orig/bin/rstartd → t/tags/checks/manpages/bad-link-to-undocumented-manpage/build-spec/orig/bin/sbin-binary - + t/tags/checks/manpages/bad-so-link-in-manpage/build-spec/debian/install - t/tags/checks/manpages/manpages-general/build-spec/orig/bin/usr-sbin-binary → t/tags/checks/manpages/bad-so-link-in-manpage/build-spec/orig/bin/bad-so - + t/tags/checks/manpages/fsstnd-dir-in-manual-page/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/fsstnd-dir-in-manual-page/build-spec/orig/bin/mentions-other-standard - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/debian/manpages - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/fill-values - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/orig/bin/pwd - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/orig/man/addpart.8 - t/tags/checks/manpages/manpages-general/build-spec/orig/man/sketch.1 → t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/orig/man/lsmod.8 - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/orig/man/pwd.1 - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/orig/man/statfs.1 - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/build-spec/orig/sbin/addpart - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/eval/desc - + t/tags/checks/manpages/gratuitous-manpage/eval/tags - + t/tags/checks/manpages/legacy-binary/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/legacy-binary/build-spec/orig/bin/bad-so - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-bad-whatis/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-bad-whatis/build-spec/orig/bin/bad-whatis - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-dh-make-template/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-dh-make-template/build-spec/orig/bin/program - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-empty/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-empty/build-spec/orig/bin/empty-manpage - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-errors-from-man/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-errors-from-man/build-spec/orig/bin/errors-from-man - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-errors-from-pod2man/build-spec/debian/install - + t/tags/checks/manpages/manpage-errors-from-pod2man/build-spec/orig/bin/errors-from-pod2man The diff was not included because it is too large. View it on GitLab: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/compare/d438eb392e5127da3ec85d0116f1979d93c49da1...d08dccfe097643353e73405002e52b3a1b9ba668 -- View it on GitLab: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/compare/d438eb392e5127da3ec85d0116f1979d93c49da1...d08dccfe097643353e73405002e52b3a1b9ba668 You're receiving this email because of your account on salsa.debian.org.
