Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread jidanni
Package: general Severity: wishlist Many executables in .../sbin have their man pages in section 1 instead of section 8. Perhaps a piuparts like script could comb over the apt-file search results to target them. Not sure if a policy violation. Or if should be made part of policy. P.S., I am

Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:54:54 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Many executables in .../sbin have their man pages in section 1 instead of section 8. Perhaps a piuparts like script could comb over the apt-file search results to target them. Sounds more like a possible new test for lintian?

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi jidanni, On Montag, 22. Februar 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Many executables in .../sbin have their man pages in section 1 instead of section 8. This is indeed a policy violation as it's covered by policy indirectly via FHS:

Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 22/02/10 15:54, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Many executables in .../sbin have their man pages in section 1 instead of section 8. Perhaps a piuparts like script could comb over the apt-file search results to target them. This could rather be a lintian check. Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread jidanni
HL Do you intend to file individual bugs? I'd appreciate this. Actually I've filed many individual bugs, some even just today. Then I got this great idea that instead of me just mentioning in to packages that I've stumbled into, there could be a systematic combing of all Debian. -- To

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 17:07, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: P.S., I am sure I filed this bug in the right place, as reportbug says general General problems (e.g., that many manpages are mode 755). I'm tempted to close this bug or reassign to reportbug ;-) Please don't. IME

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi jidanni, On Montag, 22. Februar 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Then I got this great idea that instead of me just mentioning in to packages that I've stumbled into, there could be a systematic combing of all Debian. Can you point me to bugs about manpages in section 1 which belong in

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sandro, please don't cc: me, I'm subscribed. On Montag, 22. Februar 2010, Sandro Tosi wrote: I'm tempted to close this bug or reassign to reportbug ;-) Please don't. Neither? ;) The one above is the description of 'general' we retrieve from [1], that's the canonical place for

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread jidanni
I tried to find all bugs with section 8 in their title via http://bugs.debian.org An error occurred. Error was: You have to choose something to select by I'll try this to at least find (most of) mine: $ w3m -cols -dump

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
clone 570991 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 please add a check against commands in /sbin using section 1 manpages severity -1 wishlist block 570991 by 476403 block 570991 by 512447 block 570991 by 512449 block 570991 by 512450 block 570991 by 512451 block 570991 by 512452 block 570991 by

Re: Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
# Cc to -devel for information after the reassign merge 570980 348864 thanks Holger Levsen wrote, Monday, February 22, 2010 5:19 PM clone 570991 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 please add a check against commands in /sbin using section 1 manpages fwiw, there *was* such a lintian check,

Processed: Re: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: clone 570991 -1 Bug#570991: tuxtype: Package with doc/AUTHORS and doc/ChangeLog and doc/TODO Bug 570991 cloned as bug 570994. reassign -1 lintian Bug #570994 [tuxtype] tuxtype: Package with doc/AUTHORS and doc/ChangeLog and doc/TODO Bug

Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:54:54 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Many executables in .../sbin have their man pages in section 1 instead of section 8. Perhaps a piuparts like script could comb over the apt-file search results to target them. Sounds

Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
#348864 ... -- Raphael Geissert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002221916.54574.atom...@gmail.com