Chris Waters wrote:
> Actually....checking...this seems to be true, and I don't think we
> want it to be true. Every program that's found in the default path,
> yes, but I was certainly under the impression that we don't want or
> need man pages for what might be called "private binaries",
> i.e. programs not intended to be run directly -- programs that should
> usually be found in /usr/lib/whatsit.
>
> So, as long as we're discussing the modification of 6.1, perhaps we
> should address this issue as well. Unless I'm overlooking something
> in policy that already addresses this.
Well I don't know, policy paints all library function calls with the same
brush:
If no manual page is available for a particular program, utility or
function and this is reported as a bug on debian-bugs, a symbolic link
from the requested manual page to the undocumented(7) manual page
should be provided. This symbolic link can be created from
debian/rules' like this:
The point seems to be, if it's something people would reasonably expect find
a man page on, something should be done.
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