Your message dated Sat, 3 Jul 2021 22:15:07 -0700 with message-id <cafhyt54ass-yfpxc8vbmex5yx4fgu7ccgmm+k_vif_bksgn...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: lintian: Check that manual pages are in the right section has caused the Debian Bug report #348864, regarding lintian: Check that manual pages are in the right section to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 1.23.14 Severity: wishlist 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/
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--- Begin Message ---Hi Martin, > while I can think of valid examples where a program is in > bin with a man page in section 8, I can't think of any valid examples > where a program is in sbin with a man page in section 1. At some point since you filed your bug in 2006, that compromise was implemented. It has been around for a while. Lintian warns when a system command in (?:/usr)?/sbin ships with a manual page in section 1—but not the other way round. You can find all occurrences on Lintian's website: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/manual-page-for-system-command With only six overrides in 483 occurrences overall, the tag meets our quality assurance standards for low false positives. (We use overrides as a proxy for same.) On a side note, the supporting reference on the web site currently reads as "1" due to a new bug fixed in Git. Please click on any tag version other than 2.104.275 to see the actual reference to 'hier(7)'. To be more helpful, I furthermore added this bug number and Bug#253011 as references: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/3b18988ebe385c26c5e2b09d2f3bacd23a53af3c Thanks for helping to make Lintian better! Closing this bug. Kind regards Felix Lechner
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