Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Roland> My intension was to get rid of these undocumented.7 symlinks, because
> Roland> they are quite useless because of the following points:
>
> Roland> a) dpkg -L <package> shows that there is a man page, but there is
> only
> Roland> this useless symlink.
>
> On the other hand, if there is a binary, and one does a man
> binary, some people prefer to see something. This, I am afraid, is
> merely a matter of preference.
I agree, particularly users from non-Debian systems are much more likely
to find documentation via man and not dpkg -L.
The undocumented manpage already points people to other possible locations
such as /usr/doc.
So, I object to Roland's proposal and do not think policy should be changed,
except to remove the bogus bug reports for these manpages.
Martin.
